Attributed to Mary Knight (1811 - 1897)

A Landscape of Two Houses Behind a Lake:

Samuel Herrup, Sheffield, Massachusetts.

A Landscape with House, Church, and Lake:

David Wheatcroft, Westborough, Massachusetts.

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 221-3, fig. 388-91.

Mary Knight was the daughter of Stephen Knight and Mary Huston, and was born the last of eight children, on Oct. 15, 1811 in Otisfield, Maine. According to a Knight Family Record, Mary was a teacher, who married Frederick Brackett on May 10, 1850, at the age of thirty-nine, and died in Otisfield at the age of eight-six, on December 17, 1897. Thirty-seven watercolor, one of which was signed by Mary and helped attribute the collection, were discovered in an attic in Maine along with a box lot of numerous drawings. The paintings were sold for a total of $34,500 at George Morrill's Auction on August 25, 1981 in Bridgton, Maine.