Portraits of the Day: 03/10/26 (Fletcher, Hartwell, Empire Sofa Painter, Williams, Parks)
Recently, I’ve gotten into the habit of posting, on social media, a selection of portraits in need of re-attribution - or which have recently received new attributions! Here is the first group from March thus far. Please do stop over to the Facebook or Instagram pages if you’d like to have a look at these before they arrive on the blog. - - - Aaron Dean Fletcher / George G. Hartwell / The Empire Sofa Limner / Micah Williams / Joel Parks - - - AARON DEAN FLETCHER My very first feature was Fletcher, whose fabulous portrait of a small baby I spotted by chance in Google Images. Recognizing it as his work immediately, I was surprised to see it misattributed to Asahel Powers, and delighted to discover a wealth of treasures in the Smithsonian History Museum in which this baby resides. Peculiarly, among a Powers-attributed group of the same Vermont family – the Griswolds, of Springfield, VT – two are by Fletcher, and the other two, in fact, were painted by Asahel Powers and his mysteri...