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Attributed to Deborah Goldsmith (American 1808-1836) A portrait of a mother and child, seated in an interior & A portrait of a gentleman, seated in an interior Pencil and watercolour, a pair 17.5 x 16.5cm (6¾ x 6¼ in.); and 15.5 x 13.7cm (6.1/8 x 5.3/8 in.) (2) New York State, Maryland, or Southeastern Pennsylvania, circa. 1830. Provenance: Thomas K Woodward, New York City David A. Schorsch. Greenwich, Connecticut Ralph O. Esmerian. New York City David Wheatcroft, Massachusetts Austin T. Miller Ohio Purchased from the above by the present owner in 2005 To be sold without reserve The Pinkers Collection of British, American and European Folk Art This charming collection of folk art takes its name from a diminutive 17th Century cottage on the Kent coast where it has hung and grown in size over the last twenty years. It includes watercolours and oil paintings from the 17th to the early 20th Century. Many are in their original frames and in remarkably fresh condition. Despite its rural location and the provincial subject matter of the works it is a truly international collection and many of the lots have come from some of the most important collectors and dealers in folk art on both sides of the Atlantic including Robert Young Denzil Grant and Charles Plante in England and David Wheatcroft, Joan Brownstein and Austin Miller in America. Folk Art has been described as 'the unselfconscious creativity of academically untrained artists' (Robert Young Folk Art, 1999) and it is this quality that gives many of the works an immediacy and playfulness that has chimed with generations of collectors. Some of the pictures, by journeymen artists, artisans or amateurs are provincial reinterpretations of more sophisticated works, such as the early 18th Century Yate family portraits (lot 122). Others have a joyful disregard of accepted ideas of scale, perspective and colouring, giving them a timeless quality which draws parallels with 20th Century artists including Alfred Wallis and John Nash such as View from La Moinerie (lot 120) and the American School Portrait of a girl (lot 103) has an Outsider Art quality reminiscent of the Art Brut movement founded by Jean Dubuffet Regardless of their origins this unique and varied collection is the manifestation of the vision and passion of a true collector. Condition Report: Man: The work has been stuck down to the card mount using tabs. The colour is good although there are some brown spots visible to the blue background around the sitter's head. Some light, fine craquelure to the black pigment areas, predominantly in the gentleman's coat and the left edge of the table. Otherwise light wear commensurate with age. Lady: The work has been hinge mounted along the upper edge using two bits of white mounting tape. The colour is good although there are brown spots to the sky around the sitter's head. Some light, fine craquelure to the black pigment, namely in the sitter's dress. There is a small white scratch to the upper left corner (approx 2cm). Light wear and some very light scattered staining to the extreme edges, otherwise light wear commensurate with age. Condition Report Disclaimer