Measurement: Frame: 5" x 4"; view: 2.5" x 3"

Material: Watercolor, pencil, and gum Arabic; mounted within a period gilt frame.

Condition: Fine

Additional Information: The known portraits by Mary A. Fowler Da Lee, wife of Justus
Da Lee are less developed, less elegant of those of her husband, Richard, or Aaron
Da Lee; her oeuvre displaying fully outlined eyes, chins receding or set back from the
line of the upper face. Mary Da Lee’s profiles of women feature long necks and
elongated torsos; her faces lack the wash of facial color employed by other family
members. The subject wears a tortoise shell comb in her hair, gold earrings and brooch,
and a neck ribbon…she holds a colorful book. There are notes on the verso.

210-302

Measurement: Frame: 12" x 10"; view: 9.5" x 7.5"

Material: Graphite and watercolor on paper

Condition: Two small holes, two short tears to upper and lower corners, toning

Additional Information: The verso inscribed “Drawn Buy [sic] Madison Houghton /
June 26, 1831”. On the backing paper: “The Foote family, Canton, Connecticut, 1830”
Houghton was born in Oswego, New York, eventually moved to Mt. Vernon, Knox
County, Ohio.

Literature: Four Ohio Nineteenth Century Folk Artists by Arthur and
Sybil Kerns and Peter and Leslie Warwick, Magazine Antiques, August 2007, pp 90-97, Fig. 8. (A copy
of this benchmark article will be provided to purchaser)

843-330

Measurement: 5.25 x 6 inches; View: 3.75 x 4.5 inches

Material: Pen, ink, and watercolor, paint decorated period frame

Condition: Very Good; sheet is not laid down. discoloration and staining to the sheet, as visible.
There is a tiny hole (approx. 3mm) to the sheet at the lower left border edge.

Additional Information: Most probably New Hampshire. Profile of young man in black
coat detailed with wide lapels and buttons; water colored vest and high cravat...he holds
a book in his right hand.
The face and hand are executed in white watercolor pigment; facial features drawn in
pencil.

Provenance: David Wheatcroft, Massachusetts, AAAWT, 2009
• An Amos Holbrook (born 1809) appears in the 1870 census in Niagara County,
New York, as a cabinetmaker and another Amos Holbrook (born 1783) appears
in the 1850 census in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, as a farmer. It is
speculated that the artist engaged in his primary occupation during the spring,
summer, and fall, and turned to portraiture to earn money during the winter
months.

843-328

210-274

210-275

898-30

1079-13

Hollow-cut silhouette of a man in profile to right. Cut paper with hair detail in watercolor; backed with black textile. (We don’t know if the frame is original to the piece; the paper displays strong toning-witness mark conforming to rabbet…it’s just that the back of frame and rabbet display an inconsistent dark surface; let’s assume that the frame is not original, nonetheless a very rare and interesting profile. Frame: 6 x 8"; view: 5 x 3".)