Pastel portrait of a girl with her paint box. This portrait portrays the same sitter in a similar pose as a portrait identified as Harriet Parker of Pepperell, Massachusetts, that is illustrated in 'American Primitive Painting' by Jean Lipman, figure 17, and also in 'Portrait Painting in America,' page 97, by Ellen Miles.

This is possibly a rare self-portrait by a young artist. She is shown fashionably dressed in white muslin, in a style popular circa 1815, seated and leaning on a table which displays her open box with compartments for its different paint colors.

Shown above, details from two fine New Hampshire Queen Anne chests. To the left, a Dunlap School Queen Anne chest on chest with deeply-carved fans in both top and bottom sections. To the right, a very fine New Hampshire maple and tiger maple highboy with perfect proportions.