PHILIP LORD (1814-1880)
Standing gentleman in profile holding a top hat
Lowell, Massachusetts, dated 1843
Watercolor on paper, 10 ¼ x 6 1/8, in original exceptional inlaid cherry frame. Signed on verso “By P. Lord / 14 Central St. / Lowell, Mass. / July 17, 1843,”
Back of frame with two paper jelly labels inscribed by Nina Fletcher Little (1903-1993; one transcribing the artist’s inscription and signature on verso which notes it was “Given to Harold by his Uncle Henry, Sept. 21st, 1901. A picture of Harold’s grandfather” the other “Owned by Nina F. Little.”
Provenance:
A. Carpenter, 1970; Collection of Bertram and Nina Fletcher Little, Brookline, MA; “The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection,” Sotheby’s, New York, January 29, 1994, lot 117; New England private collection.
Published:
Nina Fletcher Little, Country Arts in Early American Homes (New York, 1975), p. 178, pl. 5.