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Rufus Porter (Connecticut/Massachusetts, 1792-1884) Profile Portrait of a Sylvester Norton, of Suffield, Connecticut Unsigned. Watercolor on paper, the subject bust-length, with red-striped waistcoat, 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (sight), in an eglomise and gilt mat and period molded giltwood frame. Condition: Toning and minor staining to paper, not examined out of frame. Note: The reverse bears the label of Burr and Smith, "Looking-glass Manufacturers" from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Inscribed in pen, also on the reverse, is a note indicating that the subject of this miniature was born in 1789, and died at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1825.


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2016-08-14

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