Ruth Whittier Shute (New Hampshire, 1803-1882) Miniature Portrait of Mrs. Amasa Edes

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Ruth Whittier Shute (New Hampshire, 1803-1882)

Miniature Portrait of Mrs. Amasa Edes
Inscribed "by Mrs Shute/Sep. 28, 1833/Mrs. A. Edes Sept 28/1833" in pencil on the back.
Oil on ivory, 2 5/8 x 1 7/8 in., in a black-painted molded frame.
Condition: Minor loss to hairline, not examined out of frame.

Provenance: Estate sale in Newport, New Hampshire; Gail & Bert Savage; Barbara Pollock, Highland Park, Illinois, July 31, 1994.

Literature: Bert and Gail Savage, "Mrs. R.W. and S.A. Shute," Maine Antique Digest, August 1978, p. 2B; Helen Kellogg, "Found Two Lost American Painters," Antiques World, December 1978, pp. 37-47; C. Kurt Dewhurst, Betty MacDowell, Marsha MacDowell, Artists in Aprons (1979),p. 90; Arthur and Sybil Kern, "On Some Little-known Miniature Portraits by Well-known American Folk Painters," Folk Art, Spring, 1995, pp. 50-51.
The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art
Estimate $4,000-6,000


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