Description:
J.A. Davis (Connecticut/Rhode Island, 1821-1855)
Portrait of a Boy and Girl in a Landscape
Unsigned.
Watercolor on paper, 10 x 11 1/4 in., in a molded black-stained frame.
Condition: Toned, minor spotting.
Provenance: Purchased from the House That Jack Built.
Exhibitions: Three New England Watercolor Painters, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, November 16-December 22, 1974; The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, January 17-March 2, 1975; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia, March 25-May 11, 1975; The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, June 1-September 1, 1975.
Estimate $3,000-5,000
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