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Jeffrey Tillou Antiques
39 West Street
Litchfield, CT 08759 , United States
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William W. Kennedy (American, 1817-1871)
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Description
William W. Kennedy (1817-1871)
Lived/Active; Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut
Portrait of a Boy Holding a Book, ‘Pleasure and Profit’
Signed and dated on verso: Wm. W. Kennedy, 1846
Oil on Canvas
20 ¼” x 19 ¼” with frame.
Over-all in excellent condition, one minor patch applied on verso, very minor scattered in-painting.
Provenance: Originally found in Iowa in the early 1980's; Private Collection, Dr. Donald Moylan.
A member of the Prior-Hamblin school of artists, William Kennedy’s work can be identified by several key features. According to Paul S. D'Ambrosio and Charlotte M. Emans’ Folk Art's Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association, 1987; “Kennedy's crisp, flat likenesses strongly resemble the Prior and Hamblin portraits. His work can be distinguished from theirs by his consistent portrayal of his sitters with steeply sloping shoulders, squared noses and small pursed lips.”
This portrait of a Boy Holding a Book is one of only a few known signed works by William Kennedy.
WoA-AMP-OC 714
$37,500 - More Information
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Jeffrey Tillou Antiques was established in 1992. The three story historic building located “on the green” in Litchfield, features an extensive inventory of Americana from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Here you will find an extraordinary collection of furniture, folk art, weathervanes, sculpture, Oriental carpets, and related decorative pieces as well as distinctive European furniture and original works of art.
