Anglo-American School 19th Century, A Group of Three Portrait Miniatures

First Half 19th Century

the first, a portrait of a child, inscribed verso, "Major Carmicheal/ Killed in engagement/..." watercolor on paper, housed in black frame; the second, a reverse-glass painted profile silhouette of a woman, backed with porcelain plaque, housed in a black frame; and the third, a portrait of a young woman, watercolor on paper, housed in a gilt pendant case, verso with aperture containing hairwork.

3 x 2 1/4 inches (first, sight), 5 x 4 1/2 inches (frame).

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

Property from the Estate of Dr. Caroline W. Brown, Lombard, Illinois.

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1600 W. Girard Avenue, Philadelphia

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Lynda Cain serves as a Vice President of Freeman's and is the Head of Department for American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts.
She specializes in American furniture and decorative arts, Native American art, American folk art, and Pennsylvania furniture and decorative arts.
Cain joined Freeman's in 2001 as the company's first American furniture and decorative arts specialist. She began her career in American Decorative Arts as assistant curator at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1984 she became curator of costume at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1986, she relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts and switched from museum work when she joined the American Furniture and Decorative Art Department at Skinner Inc., Bolton and Boston, Massachusetts. Before leaving New England in 1997, she had the great pleasure of directing the cataloguing project of the Folk Art Collection of Nine Fletcher and Bertram K. Little at Cogswell’s Grant, Essex, Massachusetts for the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England. Ms. Cain joined the cast of the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow in Season 19.
Growing up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she was greatly influenced by the rich collections of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts held by Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. She notes her good fortune of working in our two great “attic states:” Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Each Commonwealth has tremendous inventory of historic material, great institutions, and citizens who treasure their inherited and collected items. Cain appears on the television Antiques Roadshow as an appraiser of decorative and folk arts.

Collect: Americana

Anglo-American School 19th Century, A Group of Three Portrait Miniatures

Collect: Americana

Anglo-American School 19th Century, A Group of Three Portrait Miniatures

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