LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Measurements:

30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (height) by 25.00 in. (63.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Unsigned.

Condition:

Unlined, minor inpainting; in mahogany veneer frames with corner blocks

Literature:

William A . Benedict and Hiram Tracy , History of the Town Sutton , p . 308 , illustrated . Exhibitions: Reflections of 19th Century America: Folk Art from the Collection of Sybil B . and Arthur B . Kern , Museum of Our National Heritage , Lexington , Massachusetts , September 19 , 1979-June 15 , . Note: Reverend Mills graduated with a degree in theology from Yale in 1775 , and in 1789 married the widow Abigail Moore and settled in Sutton , where he lived until his death in 1825 . , "the likeness [of Mr . Mills] is not a good one ; it represents him bald-headed and inferior.. . I went fishing with him only a few weeks before his death and thought him one of the noblest men I ever saw.. . When a small boy , having been told that God made men in his own images , I thought he got the best likeness in George Washington and the next best in Mr . Mills." Provenance: The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art

Provenance:

The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art.