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	Paintings and Drawings : Items 1-12 \| 13-21

Pair of portraits of a man and a woman wearing black and seated in green chairs with gold decoration.
Attributed to the artist James S. Ellsworth(1802-1874).
Original mahogany veneer frames.

Portrait of a man in a black suit seated in a red chair with gold decoration. Attributed to the artist James S. Ellsworth(1802-1874).
Original mahogany veneer frame.

Portrait of a man in a black suit seated in a red chair with gold decoration. Attributed to the artist James S. Ellsworth(1802-1874).
Original mahogany veneer frame.

Oval portrait of a woman in a plaid dress with a bonnet seated in a gold decorated chair. Attributed to the artist James S. Ellsworth(1802-1874) and pictured in the book James S. Ellsworth, by Lucy B. Mitchell, page 71, item A62 and identified as Grandma Stewart. Water color on valentine paper. Painted between 1850 and 1855. Replaced frame.

Portrait of a woman dressed in brown with gilt decorated frame.
Attributed to the artist, “J.S.E. pt” for James Sanford Ellsworth (1802-1874), painter.
Watercolor on paper
Frame probably not original to piece.

Youth with cropped hair seated on green chair with gold trim holding a flower.
Attributed to the artist, “J.S.E. pt” for James Sanford Ellsworth (1802-1874), painter.
Watercolor on paper
Original frame of mahogany veneer on eastern white pine secondary wood.

Woman in black with a blue book.
Attributed to the artist, “J.S.E. pt” for James Sanford Ellsworth (1802-1874), painter.
Watercolor on paper
Original frame of mahogany veneer on eastern white pine secondary wood.
Inscription on reverse reads

Pair of portraits with a woman in blue and a man with nearly shoulder length hair.
By the artist, “J.S.E. pt” for James Sanford Ellsworth (1802-1874), painter.
Watercolor on paper. Inscribed on the reverse notes about James Ellsworth and old family labels from the Armstrongs of Hartford, Connecticut.
Original frames of mahogany veneer on eastern white pine secondary wood.

A rare and important group six portraits of the Atkins Family of Plainfield, Massachusetts, 1840 - 1850.
Signed by the artist, “J.S.E. pt” for James Sanford Ellsworth (1802-1874), painter.
Watercolor on paper
Original frames of mahogany veneer on eastern white pine secondary wood.

Dimensions: double portrait outside dimensions -
4 1/2” x 7 1/4”, single portraits outside dimensions -
4 1/2” x 4”
SORRY, THESE PORTRAITS HAVE BEEN SOLD.

Portrait of the Schooner Adeline Townsend of Forked River, New Jersey
Signed by the artist lower right - “Wm. Hare, pinxt” - for William Hare (1815-1865)
Oil on Canvas
1820 - 1845
Retaining the original molded pine and gilt decorated frame.

In fine condition with minor repair to a puncture hole approx. 1/2” in diameter.

Portrait of a Sea Captain holding a telescope and with a whaling scene in the background.
Singed and dated on the reverse by Isaac Sheffield (1793 - 1845) of New London, Connecticut.
Dated on the reverse 1833.
Oil on Tulip Poplar Panel
Replaced period molded pine and gilt frame.

Dimensions: panel size - 30” x 24 1/2”, outside of frame - 36 1/2” x 31”

A rare and important Dressed Miniature Portrait showing a Woman in a White Dress, with a Watercolor on Ivory showing a Classical Woman fishing on the reverse. THIS ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD.
Attributed to Mary Way (1769-1833) of New London, Connecticut and New York City.
Dressed Miniature featuring watercolor on paper and silk fabric, with a watercolor on ivory Classical scene on the reverse with eglomese decorated glass matte.
Both held in the original oval gold frame with the original beveled glass front and back.

Dimensions: outside - 3 1/8” x 2 1/2”
THIS ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD.

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