£100 - £150
Decorative Arts: The Starbuck family of Nantucket; a watercolour on ivory portrait miniature of Samuel Starbuck, born Nantucket, 1762, married Lucretia Folger 1783. Ebonised frame with acorn hanger measures 14cm by 11.5cm, glass replaced with a plastic cover. Part of the Starbuck archive being sold through this saleroom. The Starbuck family were prominent in the anti-slavery movement both in the UK and the USA. Having been involved in the founding of Nantucket, members of the family emigrated to Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, after the American Revolutionary War and continued their successful whaling business.
Ivory submission reference HXFLVTT8
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