Unidentified American Boy (1853)



Figure 1.--The child here is unidentified, but we belierve to be a boy. The child wears a blue dress with wide pleats and elbow-length sleeves. The child also wears pantalettes, and strap shoes that seem to match the dress. While the child is not identified, the whip and horse pull tou both suggest a boy. We are less sure if the blue dress has gender commotations.

The child here is unidentified, but we belierve to be a boy. The child wears a blue dress with wide pleats and elbow-length sleeves. Rhe child also wears pantalettes, and strap shoes that seem to match the dress. While thee child is not identified, the whip and horse pull tou both suggest a boy. We are less sure if the blue dress has gender commotations. The boy's family name may have been Pancoast. We think he was from Massachusetts because this is where the artist, Wybrabts, worked. A HBC reader has pointed out an advertising for another Wybrants portrait. The ad copy read, "Miniature watercolor child's portrait, young boy in profile holding a whip and standing beside a horse pull toy, signed lower left "Wybrants - Artist 1853", watercolor on paper, American, 19th century, 8 x 6 in.; original stained wood cushion type frame with gilt liner. Toning, fading, pest damage or abrasion at small points throughout, not examined out of frame; frame with abrasions. Provenance: The Estate of the Late Eleanor D. Pancoast, Birmingham, Michigan." The sale is in Michigan, but we suspect the boy was painted in Massachuseettes and the family subsequently moved west to Michigan.






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