07 January 2011

Faux-naïf

I had other plans for this evening, but for no particular reason I started leafing through a book on American Folk Portraits. My mind being occupied elsewhere (I was also listening to a fascinating lecture by Sam Harris on fora.tv), my hands got busy copying a portrait of Miss Rebecca Freese of Cairo Forge, New York. The original is by an unknown artist circa 1835.
Pencil and watercolour. 18cm x 12cm. Click to enlarge.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like that style....

Anonymous said...

ps - listened to the lecture. as usual - i learned something new from E.N.

clipping path said...

awesome post! thanks a lot for sharing...

Oscar Grillo said...

She was the real owner of Uncle Tom, the man of the cabin.