James Sanford Ellsworth, Group of Five Miniature Portraits of the Pomeroy Family

Property from the Estate of Margaret P. Gregory
James Sanford Ellsworth
1802 - 1874
Group of Five Miniature Portraits of the Pomeroy Family

watercolor on paper
New England
1846
Height 3 in. by Width 2 3/4 in.

Comprising of a pair of portraits of Mr. and Mrs. David Pomeroy rendered at half-length, she wearing a black dress with white collar, he a black frock coat and tie, also features individual portraits of two of their daughters and one of their niece, Helen; the first Leeora Caroline Pomeroy, wearing a blue and yellow striped dress and carrying a rose, the next of Helen Pomeroy, the cousin, wearing a blue, purple, and coral striped dress, also carrying a rose, and the last of Mary Pomeroy, wearing a gold and blue striped dress and carrying a rose, all figures poised in profile before a shaded-cloud motif and inscribed on the reverse with their name, birth, and death dates.
two signed Ellsworth Painter, three signed J.S.E. Pt’r-, each in their apparent original wood frame

Condition Report:
The double framed portrait of the woman with brown staining throughout. Two others with diagonal creases to the paper. All with signs of foxing.

Provenance:
Jack and Gretchen Sharp, South Salem, New York;
Sotheby's, New York, Important American Folk Art and Furniture: The Distinguished Collection of the Late Stewart E. Gregory, Wilton, Connecticut, January 27, 1979, sale 4209, lot 33.