Boy With Whip And Strawberries
American School
Oil on canvas, anonymous
Circa 1835

A delightful work remaining in untouched original condition mounted in a later frame measuring 45.5 by 28-inches. The picture was purchased circa 1960 at Darien, Connecticut from an elderly gentleman who was informed by the seller that the subject to be Oscar Hamlin, born at Pennsylvania-June 12, 1828. Accompanying the portrait is a cabinet card photograph; the subject purportedly a mature Oscar Hamlin. The image was captured by J.A. Bodie of Honesdale, Pennsylvania; on the reverse in pencil is "Oscar Hamlin, Your boy grown up." (Of course we cannot prove this attribution.) Hamlin was admitted to the bar in 1852; he moved west in 1855 settling in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. He was admitted to practice within the Supreme Court in 1856; first mayor of St. Cloud.

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Price: $23,500

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