America is filled with local history museums, town libraries, and regional art museums containing some of the finest examples of early American portraiture
Ralph D. Curtis: A nineteenth-century folk artist identified
November 2009 | In 1973 at an auction in Ellenville, New York, an early nineteenth-century portrait of a woman wearing a lace bonnet, holding a red book, and seated in a high-back chair sold for what was then an unusually high price of nine thousand dollars. The picture, painted on tulipwood, was unsigned and is believed to have come from …