Figure 1.--This Lydia Field Emmet portrait was entitled 'The Brothers'. It was painted about 1909. We do not know who the boys were, obviously a well-to-do family. The older boy has short hair and may be about 8-years old. He wears a white summer sailor suit with white abkle sicks and pumps. The abkle socks were unuual at the time. His younger brother looks to be about 5-6 years old. His hair is dine in page boy bangs. He wears what looks like a blusish grey frock. At the time tunics were popular, but frock like this one were going out of style for boys. Like his brother, he wers white sovks and pumps. |
