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William M. Prior (1806-1873) Lady with Lace Cap. browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 1900: item # 814992 Please refer to our stock # 2465 when inquiring.
Raymond Agler Fine Arts 16 Pleasant Street Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930 978-281-5048 Guest Book $3,700 |
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| Oil on board, 14 x 10 inches, 20 x 16 inches with frame, unsigned, c. 1840. The veneer frame is typical and likely original to the piece. Prior wavered between an obvious ambition to paint in the academic manner and his true genius and calling for the simple. His flat, two dimensional likenesses are sometimes extraordinary in their success at capturing the essential character of the sitter in a few brief strokes. Such is the case in this example, which presents a woman pleased with herself and her station. The plain lace cap suggests the Quaker taste for simplicity. The plentiful production of Prior, his brother-in-law, Sturtevant Hamblen, William Kennedy. George Hartwell and E. W. Hartwell are often confusingly lumped together with the cover-all label "Prior-Hamblen School." The guides to the best of W. M. Prior's work in the "plain" style are a remarkable spareness in modelling and avoidance of extraneous ornament and embellishment. The lady's blue ribbon in this portrait adds a pleasing note of color. | ||
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