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PAIR OF PORTRAITS OF DEBORAH AND ELIJAH THOMPSON

Offered by: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques

Description
Possibly New York State or New England.
Artist unidentified, painted around 1838.
Oil on tulipwood panels.
30 x 24”, 34 x 28” with frames.
Over-all in great condition, housed in period gilt wood frames (see full condition report).

Although originally found in western New York, the Thompson family presumably moved up the Erie Canal in the early 19th c., according to family history, from Connecticut. Purchased by Peter Tillou in 1967, the portraits have remained in his private collection, then by descent to present date.

Illustrated: Nineteenth-Century Folk Painting: Our Spirited National Heritage. Works of Art from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tillou. pg. 79 and 80.
Exhibited: The William Benton Museum of Art, University of CT, Storrs, CT 1973.
The New York Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY 1973.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Williamsburg, VA 1974.

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Jeffrey Tillou Antiques was established in 1992. The three story historic building located “on the green” in Litchfield, features an extensive inventory of Americana from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Here you will find an extraordinary collection of furniture, folk art, weathervanes, sculpture, Oriental carpets, and related decorative pieces as well as distinctive European furniture and original works of art.