Woman Wearing Jet Beads1820–183024 1/4 × 19 1/4"Pastel on paper; original frameGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Stass1982.15.20Half-length pastel portrait of woman in black dress holding red book in proper left hand. Arms are crooked at elbows and are crossed in front, left over right. Wearing long-sleeved dress with linely pleated white lace ruffled collar, white ruched close-fitting cap with black bow on top; double strand of jet beads around neck and jet and gold ring on index fingerof proper left hand, gold band on proper right index index finger. Figure is partly turned towards proper right. Wisps of dark hair, parted in center, visible beneath cap. Strong face with dark, heavy brows and dark eyes. Against streaked brown background.1531731423Micah WilliamsDrawingsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.According to the registrar's report, pastel is backed with period newspapers with dates between 1820-1830.United StatesNew JerseyPaintingsportraitObject information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgThis pastel was received with no information or identification. When viewed alongside portraits by Williams in Monmouth County Historical Society, the sitter seems consistent with other portraits of members of Dutch families of the Freehold, Monmouth Ccounty area. The cap worn by the sitter is similar to one worn by an unidentified sitter in a painting dated 1820. (see ANTIQUES NOV 1960, p.461).18201830 1982 15 2 portraitObject information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgThis pastel was received with no information or identification. When viewed alongside portraits by Williams in Monmouth County Historical Society, the sitter seems consistent with other portraits of members of Dutch families of the Freehold, Monmouth Ccounty area. The cap worn by the sitter is similar to one worn by an unidentified sitter in a painting dated 1820. (see ANTIQUES NOV 1960, p.461).