JOHN BREWSTER JR. | DOUBLE PORTRAIT: WEALTHY JONES WINTER AND SARAH MARIE WINTER

Descended in the Winter family;

Keno Auctions New York, Important American Furniture, Paintings, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, January 22, 2013, lot 49.

Lita Solis-Cohen, "Keno Sells Americana," Maine Antique Digest, April 2013, 26-C.

The Winter family traces its roots in Bath to the mid-eighteenth century, when the grandfather of the sitters, Francis Winter, a Boston native and Harvard graduate settled in there. Winter served as a representative to the Massachusetts legislature as the First Congregational Pastor in Bath. His son Samuel (1789-1835) married Sarah Bowman (1793-1828) in 1814 and had seven children including Wealthy (b. 1819) and Sarah (b.1817). Samuel was a sea captain, sheriff and leader of the local Bath Whig Party. For additional information on Samuel see Parker McCobb Reed, History of Bath and Environs, Sagadahoc County, Maine: 1607-1894, (Portland, ME: Lakeside Press, Printers, 1894), pp. 318-9.