Mrs. Wiswall's Two Sons

Details

ISAAC AUGUSTUS WETHERBY (1819-1904)
Mrs. Wiswall's Two Sons
oil on canvas
36 x 29 ¼ in.
painted in 1842

Provenance

I. Jay & Felice A. Zweig, Eden Galleries, Salem, New York

Literature

Michael R. Payne and Suzanne Rudnick Payne, “The Business of an American Folk Portrait Painter, Isaac Augustus Wetherby,” Folk Art (Winter, 2007), p. 63.

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Lot Essay

This piece is listed in Isaac Wetherby's journal as painted on January 18th, 1842, and he noted that one of the children was painted after death. His journal was published in The New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, vol. xxv (April, 1941), p. 65.

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