Pair of Antique Scottish Watercolor Portraits of Shepherd Boys
$485.00
This pair of watercolor portraits is signed and dated 1834.
They show two young Scottish shepherd boys (possibly brothers?). Each boy wears a blue tam o’ shanter.*
One portrait shows a young boy standing with his dog and holding a whip. The matching portrait shows the other boy standing beside a sheep. An inscription found on the back of one frame states: “The Little Shepherd Boys. To John Forster. For his New Year’s Gift- from James Wood-1st Jan 1834.”
The portraits are framed In appropriate period wood frames.
Dimensions: 10.25″ height x 8.75″ wide
Condition: Good; there is slight wear to the parcel gilt of the inner frame
*The tam o’ shanter is a flat bonnet, originally made of wool hand-knitted in one piece, stretched on a wooden disc to give the distinctive flat shape, and subsequently felted. The earliest forms of these caps, known as a blue bonnet from their typical color, were made by bonnet-makers in Scotland.
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