MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF CHILD IN HAT WITH A ROCKING HORSE AND WHIP

Details

JAMES GUILD (1797-1841)
MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF CHILD IN HAT WITH A ROCKING HORSE AND WHIP
signed and dated James Guild/ Baltimore 1820 (lower left)
watercolor on paper
6 1⁄4 x 4 5⁄8 in.

Provenance

Bertram K. & Nina Fletcher Little, Brookline, Massachusetts
Sotheby’s, New York, 29 January 1994, lot 77

Literature

Nina Fletcher Little, Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts (Hanover, NH, 1984), p. 275, fig. 362.
Arthur B. and Sybil B. Kern, "James Guild Quintessential Itinerant Portrait Painter," The Clarion (Summer, 1992), p. 56, fig. 10.
Rita Reif, "A Family Totally at Home," The New York Times (8 August 1993), p. 30.
Peter Goodman, Notebook, no. 960.

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Lot Essay

Born in Halifax, Vermont, James Guild was a traveling peddler, tinker, penmanship teacher and likeness and miniature painter. He is known for his detailed diary which he kept from 1818-1824. This gives insight into the life of an itinerant at the time. The present lot is one of only a few pieces signed by Guild. It exhibits a shift is his works from simple profiles to full length detailed portraits. For further information on Guild see Arthur B. and Sybil B. Kern, "James Guild Quintessential Itinerant Portrait Painter," The Clarion (Summer, 1992), pp. 48-56.

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