$15,600
Susan C. Waters (American, 1823-1900) Portrait of Ann Eliza Collins Aged 2 Years, 1845, in a Landscape Holding a Cluster of Grapes. Signed, dated, and titled in painted inscriptions on the back of the canvas "Ann Eliza Collins Aged 2 Years/1845/Painted by Mrs. S.C. Waters." Oil on canvas, 46 x 29 in., in a period molded giltwood frame. Condition: Tacking edges relined, minor retouch, repaired tear l.r. Note: Susan Catherine Waters was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1823. She developed her artistic training at a female seminary she attended in Friendville, Pennsylvania, married William Waters at seventeen, and with his encouragement, developed her artistic talent, and traveled and painted portraits in southern New York state and into Pennsylvania. When her husband's health began to fail she suspended her portrait painting and worked with him taking daguerreotype and ambrotype photographs. After a time they settled in Bordentown, New Jersey, where she began painting again, her style becoming more academic in her depictions of animals, still lifes, and portraits. This portrait of Ann Collins and of her brother Theodore, Lot 118, were painted earlier in her career.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-10-27
