Susan C. Waters (American, 1823-1900) Portrait of a Girl with Dogs: Admiring the Litter.

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Susan C. Waters (American, 1823-1900)

Portrait of a Girl with Dogs: Admiring the Litter. Signed "S.C. Waters" l.l. Oil on canvas, 40 x 32 in., in a period molded gilt-gesso frame. Condition: Relined, minor scattered retouch.

Note: Susan Catherine Waters was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1823. She developed her artistic training at a female seminary she attended in Friendville, Pennsylvania, married William Waters at seventeen, and with his encouragement, developed her artistic talent, traveled and painted portraits in southern New York state and into Pennsylvania. When her husband's health began to fail she suspended her portrait painting and worked with him taking daguerreotype and ambrotype photograpghs. After a time they settled in Bordentown, New Jersey, where she began painting again, her style becoming more academic in her depictions of animals, still lifes, and portraits. The painting offered here was likely executed in the latter period of her career.
Estimate $8,000-12,000

Professionally executed sparsely scattered retouch to spots on girl's face, body/clothing, and spotty areas to dogs and background.

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