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"Lady with Her Pets"
1790. Oil on canvas Hathaway may have been apprenticed to a ship carver or decorator. He traveled in southern Massachusetts, painting portraits from 1790 until 1795, when he married and decided to study medicine. The sitter in Lady with Her Pets has been tentatively identified as Molly Wales Fobes (1772-1801), the daughter of Prudence Wales and the Reverend Peres Fobes of Raynham, Massachusetts. Hathaway’s earliest portrait, it has the exquisitely achieved design of the finest rural art: the unnatural clarity, the pale colors, the unreal space, and the odd combination of animals. These creatures seem to occupy a different, magical world, quite removed from a small town in Massachusetts. For further information on portraiture click here. Folk Home More about the Exhibition About the Artists Back
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