Figure 1.--Wybrant painted this portrait of an unidentified Massachusetts boy in 1853. He wears a black coat over a dress or skirt. Click on the image on an enlargement of the collar.
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Figure 1.--Wybrant painted this portrait of an unidentified Massachusetts boy in 1853. He wears a black coat over a dress or skirt. Click on the image on an enlargement of the collar. |
We note a naive American artist in the mid-1850s. He signed his name Wybrant. I'm not sure what his proper name was or if that was his last name. Wybrant was a rather elusive watercolor portrait artist that painted out of Gloucester in the 1850s. There are only a few known portraits. Here we have a portrait of an unidentified boy, presumably from the Bodton area. The portrait was painted in 1853. Its hard to tell age from these naive portraits, but would guess a boy of about 6 years of age.He wears a black coat over a dress or skirt. He has a modest lace collar and bow. He holds what looks like a broad-brimmed hat. He also wears pantalettes, long white stockings, and boot-like shoes.
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