HORACE BUNDY (1814-1883)

Young Girl in a Blue Dress
Claremont, (New Hampshire or Vermont), 1857
Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches, with original gilt frame
Signed verso: “H. Bundy / Claremont Nov 1857.

This is a classic example of a Bundy Portrait of a child, depicted half-length within an oval. She is a particularly attractive young girl in a blue dress seated on a red upholstered oval-back side chair, nicely detailed, the subject wears a woven hair bracelet and holds a flower.

For biographical information on this artists see Lauren B. Hewes, “Horace Bundy Itinerant Portraitist, The Magazine Antiques, October 1994, pp. 486-494. Works by Bundy are represented in the collections of the National Gallery, American Folk Art Museum, Fruitlands Museum, Heritage Museum and Gardens, Hood Museum of Art, Montclair Art Museum, Old Sturbridge Village, Shelburne Museum, The Newark Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Smith College Museum of Art, and others.