Paintings Worth Looking At

There is no shortage of attribution corrections to be made, and interesting portraits to showcase! Here is another assortment of them, all posted first on Facebook and Instagram . While my work on the American Folk Portrait Wiki has precluded the writing of any extensively in-depth articles recently, I hope to keep sharing information whenever I can. - - - William W. Kennedy / Ammi Phillips / Sturtevant Hamblin / Royall Brewster Smith / Erastus Salisbury Field / John Bradley  - - - WILLIAM W. KENNEDY It’s never a bad time to post William W. Kennedy. I wish I had a higher-quality image of this painting, but one must make do. Her landscape background is highly unusual - an ambitious move for Kennedy, who usually eschewed them in favor of quick and simple backdrops. What made this sitter special? We must wonder. Portrait of the day: Young Lady with a Red Book, by William W. Kennedy. Though countless Kennedy paintings have gone under the hammer by another name (or no name at all), thi...