Mrs. Reuben Allerton (Lois Atherton)  1822

Ammi Phillips was a self-taught, itinerant portrait painter and plied his trade in western Connecticut, western Massachusetts, and New York. He first appeared as a professional portrait painter in a July 29, 1809, advertisement placed in the [i]Berkshire Reporter[/i] (Pittsfield, Massachusetts), in which he promised to paint likenesses and profiles over the following weeks...