Pair of Folk Portraits

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pair American folk portraits

Tear Sheet


Attributed to Joseph Stone (1774-1815), Massachusetts

c. 1796

Oil on heavy paper

27” x 18”; in the original carved and painted frames

Depicting Captain and Mrs. (Mary Jarvis) Phineas Stone

Provenance: by descent in the family to Mrs. Whitney Snow Stoddard; Northeast Auctions, March 2004; Stephen Corrigan; Private Collection.

Exhibited: Williamstown, MA, Williams College Museum of Art, “Two Hundred Years of American Art” (alumni loan exhibition), 1993.

Literature: A. Kern, “Painter of the Almond-Shaped Eyes,” Antiques & Fine Art, Vol. XIII, Issue 1 (Winter/ Spring 2014), pp. 249, 251, illus. p. 252.

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