- Federal Cherry and Bird’s-eye Maple and Mahogany Veneer
Half Sideboard, made in the shop of Hastings Warren (1779-1845),
Middlebury, Vermont, 1814, the cockbeaded inlaid drawers with
opalescent Sandwich glass pulls, added in 1833, (old refinish), ht. 39
1/2, case wd. 40 1/2, dp. 19 in.
Literature: See Zogry, pp. 64-65, cat. no. 28.
Exhibitions: The Best the Country Affords: Vermont Furniture,
1765-1850, The Bennington Museum, 1995, catalogue number 28;
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, 1995.
Note: An inscription on the underside of the top right hand drawer
traces the history of the piece. It reads in part, “Huldah Chipman’s
daughter of Maj’r Gen. Timothy F. Chipman. Purchased of Brig. Gen.
Hastings Warren of Middlebury, Vt./Shoreham, Vt./Nov’m. 1814.”
Zogry notes, “no piece of Vermont furniture is better documented than
this one, which descended for 125 years in an unbroken matriarchal line
from the original owner, a member of one of Addison County’s most
prominent early families.”
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15.
Ruth W. Shute (American, 1803-1882)Portrait of a St. Albans, Vermont, Woman. Unsigned, with printed
and inscribed paper artist’s label applied to the back of canvas:
“Painted by Mrs. R.W. Shute St. Albans F[ebruary] 1835.” Oil on
canvas, 30 1/2 x 24 in., with original stretcher and molded giltwood
frame. Condition: Minor scattered retouch, stable craquelure.Provenance: Purchased from Stephen/Douglas Antiques, Rockingham,
Vermont, in 1994.Note: Ruth W. Shute and her physician husband Dr. Samuel A.
Shute were itinerant portrait painters known for their individual and
collaborated watercolor portraits of individuals living in Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and northern New York State
beginning in 1827. It appears Samuel became very ill around 1834-
and was unable to paint. It has been discovered in recent times that
several oil on canvas paintings, all executed by Mrs. Shute and dating
from 1834-35, were discovered in the Plattsburg, New York, and St.
Albans, Vermont, area, indicating Ruth had taken the responsibility of
earning a living by painting portraits in these towns while her husband
was ill and being cared for by family in nearby Champlain, New York.
Samuel died in 1836 at the age of thirty-two. Ruth subsequently
moved to Concord, New Hampshire, remarried, then moved to
Kentucky, and continued painting until about 1839.This is the only known labeled painting by the artist.
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