Folk Portraits on Panel, Daniel Griswold and His Daughter Louisa
Asahel Lynde Powers, (1813-1843), Oil on Panel, each is signed front & back, ages noted
Painted by Powers & Rice - August 1^st 1835 Daniel Griswold Tavern Owner W. Springfield  
Portrait of Louisa Griswold Field / painted in her wedding dress  (later script)
Exhibited: Asahel Powers-Painter of Vermont Faces, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum 1973
Published: Little, Nina Fletcher, Asahel Powers-Painter of Vermont Faces. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1973. 
                   Plates 37 & 38, pp. 38 & 39
Discussed in: Lipman, Jean, Armstrong, Tom, American Folk Painters of Three Centuries.
                       Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1980, page 156
Other references available including town histories and genealogical for both the Griswold and Field families.
(Minor restoration, original frames; Louisa's frame: 30 by 36 , sight-size: 27 by 33.5;
                                                              Daniel's frame: 29.5 by 36 , sight-size: 26.25 by 33 )  $32,000 the pair
R18I2005761    

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