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Oil portrait of two blue-eyed children wearing identical white dresses with embroidered bodices and a tasseled bow at the waist. Each child is also wearing a pale pink robe with embroidered and tasseled cuffs. The child on the right has a small tuft of blond hair and is holding the end of the tasseled bow in its right hand. The children are framed by a painted oval. Painted black and gold wood frame.
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"Wm LYDSTON Pinxet" (Black paint)
"S.S.W. Died April 7th/1859" (Black paint)
"Painted By/ Wm Lydston./ #115 Court St./ Derby Range/ Boston/ Mass./ July 4th 1859" (Black paint)
"WM. LYDSTON, JR. portrait,/ miniature, and fancy painter/ of Boston, active 1835-60./ Native of Mass. born circa/ 1813. Probably an elder bro-/ ther of Francis Lydston, also/ a Boston fresco & fancy ptr." (Black ink)
Lydston, William, Jr., 1813-1881 (Artist)
Boston, MA, USA
33 3/4 x 29 1/2 x 2 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Nina Fletcher Little
1966.461
Massachusetts (United States)
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