Likely New York
Both portraits show North’s characteristic oeuvre. Noah North, the third of eight children (1809-18800 was born in Alexander, New York. He began painting in the early 1830s and was a relatively unknown portraitist whose career lasted about a decade. He is known to have painted in the areas of Alexander, Holley and Rochester, New York as well as in Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio, and in Kentucky. His work, executed in simple linear painting style associated with earlier New England limners, shows a remarkable similarity to that of Milton William Hopkins who was most likely North’s painting instructor. The two men lived near each other in Genesee and Orleans counties and as Jacquelyn Oak has proposed, census records suggest North may have boarded in the Hopkins household during his training.
Item Date: 1833
Measurement: 32" x 39"
Material: Oil on panel
Item Condition: Fine condition, original frames; the lady is perfect…there may be a trivial dime size fill to the man’s chair at lower left.
Literature: see Jacquelyn Oak, "Face to Face: M.W. Hopkins and Noah North" (Lexington, MA, 1988), p. 23). Also, Nancy C. Muller and Jacquelyn Oak, "Noah North (1809-1880)", The Magazine Antiques (November 1977), p. 943).
Price: $11,500
SKU 1255-25
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