Portrait of George Matthews [graphic material]
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Portrait of George Matthews [graphic material]
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Record information Portrait of George Matthews [graphic material]
Date:1830-1839.Reference:R5292-0-7-EType of material:ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:165416Date(s):1830-1839.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:1 painting miniature; watercolour on ivoryLanguage of material:EnglishScope and content:Miniature portrait of a man, possibly of George Matthews (fllg. ca. 1816-1866), presumably by an American miniaturist Henry Colton Shumway (1807-1884). Shumway was a successful American miniaturist who worked largely in New York, but is known to have travelled to Canada, specifically to Montreal. George Matthews was a Montreal printer and lithographer.Provenance:Biography/Administrative history:Shumway, Henry Colton, 1807-1884 : Miniature Painter. Henry Colton Shumway (1807-1884) was a successful American miniaturist who was born in Connecticut. When he was twenty-one he went to New York and took life drawing classes at the National Academy of Design and it is thought he also studied miniature painting with Thomas Seir Cummings. By 1831 he had established himself as a miniature painter, and was elected as one of the National Academy's earliest members in 1832. He is known to have exhibited his work from 1829 to 1860. Although he visited Washington D.C., New Orleans and spent summers in Connecticut, he primarily worked in New York. He was also a member of the New York State militia, serving as a colonel during the Civil War, and serving as captain for twenty eight years. After 1860 with the decline of the market for miniatures, he coloured daguerreotypes for a living. He is primarily known for miniatures in large rectangular format. Johnson, Dale T. American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection, New York; Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature, New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman MCMXXI; French, H.W. Art and Artists in Connecticut. New York, 1970.Additional information:Custodial history:Owner previous to the sale had information on good authority that the miniature had come from Colonel John Martin, a descendant of the sitter.Source:Private -
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