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Dimensions: measurements 34 by 27 1/2 in. alternate measurements 86.4 by 69.9 cm
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Provenance: Mrs. Edward Deming Andrews, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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Literature: Stacy C. Hollander and Howard Fertig, Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of Portraiture, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, 1994, p. 104. Lawrence and Barbara Holdridge, Ammi Phillips Portrait Painter, 1788-1865 (Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, Publisher, 1969), number 279
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Notes: PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
The Dewey family residence was located to the east of the village of New Lenox, Massachusetts. Charles Asaph Dewey was born in New Lenox October 14, 1818, his wife Sarah King Dewey was born January 10, 1824, the daughter of Roland and Maria Weller King. Charles and Sarah were married November 2, 1848. They had nine children, of whom Harriet Maria, the sitter in the present portrait, was born June 11, 1859. The double portrait of Harriet and her mother was painted circa 1862-1863. At that time Phillips was living in Curtisville (now Interlaken), Massachusetts, near Stockbridge.
