Lot 170: LUCIUS BARNES

MINIATURE WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT OF MARTHA BARNES, AGED 96

measurements
4.8 by 3.5 in.

alternate measurements
12.2 by 8.9 cm

circa 1800

signed L. Barnes, Painter, l.r.; in original wood frame with wood backing. A closely related example is illustrated and discussed in Beatrix T. Rumford, General Editor, Folk Portraits: Paintings and Drawings from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, 1981, p. 45-46, fig. 10.

watercolor, pen and ink on paper

PROVENANCE

John Miles Standish, Berkeley, California, 1971, who was a 10th generation direct descendant of Miles Standish (c. 1584-1656), the English born American settler who was a military leader of the Plymouth Colony
John Garzoli, San Francisco, California, 1971-1992
Thomas Colville Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 1992