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       Early American Antiques

A fine 19th century American folkart watercolor and ink portrait attributed to Joseph H. Davis, circa 1835.  The full-length miniature depicts a gentleman in a black, shawl-collared coat, a striped vest, a high collared shirt, and trousers. He is standing on a vibrantly colored patterned floor coving holding his top hat. Housed under glass in a period-appropriate black molded wooden frame.  For additional examples of Davis's work, see "A Loving Likeness; American Folk Portraits of the Nineteenth Century", pgs. 16 & 17.  Also "Three New England Watercolor Painters", pgs. 22 - 41. 

Dimensions:  sight 4.75” x 6.25”, frame 6.25” x 7.75”.