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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Snowman Cometh, post: 10209043, member: 83302&quot;]Without having to pay for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This piece could go in either jewelry or art. It&#039;s beautiful.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s no reason to think whoever wrote the note was lying. Lida Williams was a miniature portraitist born in 1859 and a few of her pieces are in Kentucky museums.</p><p><br /></p><p>I seriously doubt they got the name of the child wrong. So, the art is just beautiful. I marvel at people who can create such small but detailed paintings.</p><p><br /></p><p>The part that I would love to confirm is that the frame came from the Hearst estate. This portrait was made and stayed in Kentucky till it arrived at my house yesterday in PA (it&#039;s one and only road trip). So, I imagine the Phillips got the frame from an auction. I did find an article online that much of Hearst&#039;s belongings were sold in the early 1940s, which would correspond with this piece being made in 1944.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is there any way to confirm a piece&#039;s history without paying some auction house or dealer a mint to make an educated guess?</p><p><br /></p><p>The piece is beautiful in person. In the sale, they didn&#039;t show a photo of the back, which is almost as cool as the front. The strange part is, the hair is held together with pink not blue, and this is a boy&#039;s painting. It was Kentucky in the 40s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m editing this to add another photo. This is the symbol on the box the frame came in. I did an image search and nothing. [ATTACH=full]510248[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]510247[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]510246[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]510277[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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