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Prior/Hamblin School, mid-19th century Portrait of Alice L. Wright (1832-47), Manchester, New Hampshire image 1
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Prior/Hamblin School
mid-19th century
Portrait of Alice L. Wright (1832-47), Manchester, New Hampshire

2 – 12 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sold for US$4,352 inc. premium

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Prior/Hamblin School, mid-19th century

Portrait of Alice L. Wright (1832-47), Manchester, New Hampshire
unsigned
tempera on cardstock, in glazed and painted pine frame
14 x 10 1/4 in.
framed 17 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.

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Provenance Note
The reverse inscribed "Alice Wright / Sister of Adelaide Tufts / and Elizabeth Prescott" at top center; "Born April 20, 1832" along top left edge; "Died [Sept] 27th 1847 / Aged 15 yrs. 5 mo. 7 d." along bottom right edge. "32" inscribed at bottom center. Additional faint or partially erased pencil inscriptions observed at top right edge and above later inscription at bottom right edge. Early 20th-century adhesive label on top rail of frame inscribed "Alice Wright / Born 1832. Died 1847 / Sister of / Adelaide Wright Tufts". Note inscribed "Alice Wright / Sister of Adelaide Wright Tufts / and / Elizabeth Prescott / Born Apr 20, 1832 / Died July 27, 1847" taped to backboard.

Alice was the daughter of Harriet Bowman and Alfred Wright (1805-76), a stone mason born in Littleton, New Hampshire. Her death record, which gives the name Elice L. Wright, states that she died of dysentery in Manchester on 27 September 1847 at age 15 years, 5 months, and 7 days. Sister Adelaide "Addie" Wright (1839-84) married a painter, Charles H. Tufts of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1859.

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