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United States boys clothes : the 1830s unknown family
United States Boys Clothing: 1830s Families
Figure 1.-- Here we have an unattributed naive portrait. We do not know the artist or family. Naive artists often do not getv age right, but the garment are depicted to a tee. We suspect the ages range from 5 to 13 yeras based primarily on biology. (Sibkings are unlikelt to br closer together than 1 1/2 years. The two boys are probably not as close im age as suggested. The younger boy wears a green patterned dress dress with a ruffled collar. The older boy wears a suit with a short collat-buttoned jacket and striped pants. The girl wears a white dress with a low neckline, puffed sleeves and pink sash. The portrait is not obvviously dated. One art historin suggests 1825, but there is a '39' notation in the book. That may mot be a date, but it likekly is. Click here to see the notation.
This beautiful naive family portait is unatributed and unidentified (figure 1). There is no clue as to where they lived. We see a mother and father and their three children. The man in the center must be an uncle or other adult as he has brown eyes. Everyone else has blue eyes. Naive artists often do not get ages right, but the garment are depicted to a tee. We suspect the ages range here is from 5 to 13 yeas based primarily on biology. (Sibings are unlikely to be cloiser together thn 1 1/2 years.) The two boys are probably not as close in age as suggested by the artist. The younger boy wears a green patterned dress dress with a ruffled collar. The older boy wears a suit with a short collar-buttoned jacket and striped pants. The girl wears a white dress with a low neckline, puffed sleeves and pink sash. The portrait is not obvviously dated. One art historin suggests 1825, but there is a '39' notation in the book. That may mot be a date, but it likekly is. Click here to see the notation.
