George Lethbridge Saunders (English, 1807-1863) Pair of portrait miniatures: Dr. and Mrs. John Kearsley Mitchell
Watercolor on ivory, one frame retains printed paper label for "Wholesale and retail Looking Glass and Picture Frame manufactory. James S. Earle No. 2112 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia", and both retain printed labels from "The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters Tenth Annual Exhibition."
John Kearsley Mitchell (1793-1858) was born in Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia) but spent most of his professional life as a physician, scientist and teacher in Philadelphia. Mitchell attended the University of Edinburgh and upon returning to the United States apprenticed with Samuel Powell Griffitts. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1819. He married Sarah Matilda Henry (1800-1872) in 1822 and taught at the Philadelphia Medical Institute, The Franklin Institute and Jefferson Medical School.
Watercolor on ivory, one frame retains printed paper label for "Wholesale and retail Looking Glass and Picture Frame manufactory. James S. Earle No. 2112 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia", and both retain printed labels from "The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters Tenth Annual Exhibition."
4 in. x 3 1/2 in. (sight)
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Watercolor on ivory, one frame retains printed paper label for "Wholesale and retail Looking Glass and Picture Frame manufactory. James S. Earle No. 2112 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia", and both retain printed labels from "The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters Tenth Annual Exhibition."
John Kearsley Mitchell (1793-1858) was born in Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia) but spent most of his professional life as a physician, scientist and teacher in Philadelphia. Mitchell attended the University of Edinburgh and upon returning to the United States apprenticed with Samuel Powell Griffitts. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1819. He married Sarah Matilda Henry (1800-1872) in 1822 and taught at the Philadelphia Medical Institute, The Franklin Institute and Jefferson Medical School.
Watercolor on ivory, one frame retains printed paper label for "Wholesale and retail Looking Glass and Picture Frame manufactory. James S. Earle No. 2112 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia", and both retain printed labels from "The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters Tenth Annual Exhibition."
4 in. x 3 1/2 in. (sight)
