1797american Miniature Portrait On Ivory By Lilly O'ryan Of C. Fowler Connecticut

Approx. 2 1/2 by 3 1/4 inches and framed in a black ebonized carved frame is approx. 5 by 5 1/2 inches.

Woman in white lace cap and shawl wearing a black dress. Interesting open window to her right with floral trellis like.

Signed L.V. O'Ryan '97 on the right at approx. 4 o'clock. O'Ryan was a Miniature artist painting in the late 18th and early 19th Century.

The back identifies the sitter as Catherine Worthington Fowler wife of Reuben Rose Fowler.

My research found the Worthingtons early Puritan Settlers in Connecticut. Catherine was born Aug. 6th 1764.

Good american painting no chips or cracks, good color.

Rare to have artist and sitter