John Brewster, Jr. (Connecticut/Maine, 1766-1854),Pair of Portraits of Deacon Benjamin Titcomb (1726-1798) and his wife Anne Pearson T

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John Brewster, Jr. (Connecticut/Maine, 1766-1854)

Pair of Portraits of Deacon Benjamin Titcomb (1726-1798) and his wife Anne Pearson Titcomb (1729-1800)
Signed, dated and inscribed "Painted by John Brewster ___ 1798" (on the stretcher of Anne Titcomb's portrait)
Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in., in the original molded and beaded giltwood frames.
Condition: paintings very well preserved, frames with some gesso loss.

Provenance: Originally housed in the Quinby Mansion, in Stroudwater, Maine; descended through family from the sitters, to the consignor, Deacon Benjamin Titcomb's Great-great-great-great granddaughter.

Literature: According to the writer of New England Family History, Volume 2, whose information was sourced from a handwritten note penned by Andrew Titcomb, Benjamin's son, the Deacon "was a man of fine personal appearance, tall and well-proportioned. He dressed well, wearing a full-bottomed wig and small-clothes, and was a very worthy and influential citizen." He married Anne Pearson, daughter of Portland Deacon Moses Pearson (pp. 195-96),in 1753. Photographs of these portraits are illustrated in that book, which was published in the early 20th century.

Estimate $30,000-50,000


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