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Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Mrs. Nathaniel Paine and Child
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Mrs. Nathaniel Paine and Child

Attribution John Brewster (American, 1766-1854)
Dateca. 1800
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 29 1/2 x 25 3/4 in. (74.9 x 65.4 cm)
Overall, Frame: 33 3/4 x 30 in. (85.7 x 76.2 cm)
ClassificationsAmerican art
Credit LineGift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Object number80.181.2
Terms
  • Woman
  • Child
  • Portrait
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DescriptionThis is an oval oil on canvas portrait painting of a mother holding a child in her lap. The woman is wearing a dress with lace hems and a red rose painted on her bodice. The girl is wearing a similiar dress and is holding a yellow ball in her right hand.

Label TextAttributed to John Brewster, Jr. American, 1766–1854 Mrs. Nathaniel Paine and Child, ca. 1800 Oil on canvas In 1802, portraitist John Brewster advertised in the Newburyport Herald that clients “will be pleased with the striking likeness…and with the reasonableness of his prices.” Deaf and mute from birth, Brewster traveled throughout New England in the early 1800s and earned a steady living as a painter. When America’s first school for the deaf opened in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1817, the 51-year-old artist could afford to enroll as a self-supporting pupil. The precise and controlled execution of this portrait matches many of Brewster’s signed works. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch 80.181.2
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