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Joseph G. Chandler (1813-84). Thos. Sylvanus Rich, 1852 browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 1900: item # 820658 Please refer to our stock # 2466 when inquiring.
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| Oil on canvas, 29.25 x 36.5 inches, 36 x 43 inches with frame, inscribed verso before lining: "Painted for Thomas Sylvanus Rich, aged 21 months, by J.G. Chandler, May 1852." John O'Keefe, then at the Art Institute of Chicago, observed in his article on Chandler ("The Magazine Antiques", November, 1972) that Chandler's paintings "...between 1837 and 1852 embody much of the best in American folk art...It was in his portraits of children that Chandler excelled. He seems to have had a lively empathy and warmth toward his young sitters...The settings devised by Chandler for his portraits are among the most original-and frequently exotic-of the nineteenth century." Just short of his second birthday, sturdy, dimpled young Thomas Rich, son of Henry Rich and Mary McIntire Rich of Chelsea, Massachusetts, is posed with his gray-muzzled canine companion in a leafy landscape with (borrrowed) distant mountain peaks. Chandler, who had just opened his Boston studio, includes an orchard in the middle ground, a feature certainly much more common to Chandler's own South Hadley than to bustling Chelsea. Thomas, unlike many children of the period, survived childhood and married Mary Frances Whitney in Rockland, Maine in 1875. | ||
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