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STURTEVANT J. HAMBLEN ACTIVE 1837-1856

Offered by: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques

Description
Pair of Portraits, Sea Captain and Wife
Massachusetts, ca. 1840.
Oil on canvas.
27” x 21”, 32 ¼” x 26 ½” with frame.

Great condition, lined in the 1960’s, very minimal in-painting in upper background areas.
Housed in wonderful period stenciled frames, appear to be original.

Provenance: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tillou, Illustrated in Nineteenth-Century Folk Painting: Our Spirited National Heritage, pl. 95 and 96, 1972.

Brother-in-law to William M. Prior, Hamblen worked in Portland, Maine in the late 1830’s. He later moved to Boston around 1840 where he painted portraits in the Prior style. His portraits are often difficult to distinguish from those of Prior.

More Information

Period:	19th Century
Styles / Movements:	Folk Art
Dealer Reference #:	WoA-AMP-OC 634
Incollect Reference #:	648453

Dimensions

W.	26 in;	H.	32 in;
W.	66.04 cm;	H.	81.28 cm;

Message from Seller:

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.