JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH | PORTRAIT OF AUSTIN M. PURVES, JR

JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH
1863 - 1935
PPORTRAIT OF AUSTIN M. PURVES, JR

signed Jessie Willcox Smith (lower right) and inscribed on artist's original calling card (affixed to the reverse); also signed again and inscribed (on the frame)
oil and pencil on canvas
14 by 13 inches
(35.6 by 33 cm)
Painted circa 1908.

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Provenance:
The artist

Austin Purves, Jr., Litchfield, Connecticut (the sitter)

Oliver Purves, Litchfield, Connecticut

By descent to the present owner