$7,050
James Sanford Ellsworth (American, 1802/03- 1874) Portrait Miniature of Ruth Perkins Pomeroy. Signed "Ellsworth Painter" l.c., subject identified in inscriptions on the reverse. Watercolor on card, 3 x 2 3/4 in., in a period mahogany veneer frame. Condition: Minor toning and foxing. Note: Inscriptions on the reverse read: Ruth Perkins Pomeroy/Born May 4 1836/married Judge C.F. Moultin of Mobile & lived there during the civil war/Died in St. Louis, Missouri in the year 1892." A genealogical search indicates Ruth Perkins Pomeroy was born May 4, 1836 in Southampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, to Jonathan and Ruth (Thorpe) Pomeroy. She married Cleveland Fortune Moulton (b. July 8, 1827) on November 15, 1858, and together they had four children. The three oldest were born in Mobile, Alabama, the youngest born in Southampton, Massachusetts. Ruth died February 19, 1892.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-11-03
