Laura Ann Bassett Memorial Painting on Velvet, Seneca, New York, c. 1837.

Laura Ann Bassett Memorial Painting on Velvet, Seneca, New York, c. 1837. Water in foreground below a fenced yard with large white stone monument in center-right surrounded by willow trees and pink roses, the plinth inscribed 'Laura Ann / Bassett / [-] / Sept. 26, 1837 / Age'd 11 yrs 10 m', with large house and dense village in left distance, a church at right, mounted in glazed molded gilt frame, labels on reverse of the Farnsworth Museum of Art, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and of the American Folk Art Gallery, assigning provenance to the Wilde Collection, sight, 22 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. Footnotes: Provenance Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. American Folk Art Gallery, New York, New York. Collection of Isabel Carleton Wilde (1877-1951), Cambridge, Massachusetts. Note Laura Ann Bassett (1825-37) was the daughter of Charles (1792-1865) and Laura Fobes Bassett (1792-1875), who married 7 April 1816 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, before settling a farm near Geneva, New York. Laura's older sister, Susan M. Bassett (c. 1817-38), likely painted the theorem. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing