$10,575
Attributed to William Jennys (Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, ac. ac. 1798-1808) Portrait of Anna Hoyt (b. 1783) Unsigned. Oil on canvas, the bust-length portrait of the young dark-haired woman who wears an Empire-waisted pink dress trimmed with an embroidered white sheer collar and jewelry including hair combs, earrings and a pin, and holds a red purse, posed in an oval with dark spandrels, sight 29 1/4 x 24 in.. in original neoclassical frame with some loss to surface and detail. Condition: Good, minor inpainting, re-lined. Note: The Hoyt family lived in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where William and Richard Jennys worked together in 1807. According to the most recently published work on the Jennys, Early American Portraiture, Dublin Seminar for New England Folk Life, (Boston University), this neoclassical portrait is typical of his early 19th century work--full of realism but having sculptural qualities.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-06-05
