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Attributed to John Wesley Jarvis (Anglo/American 1780-1840) Portrait Miniature of Mary Ten Broek. Signed and dated "Jarvis No. 122 Broadway 1807", sitter identified on inscription on reverse. Watercolor on card, 3 5/8 x 2 5/8 in. (sight), in a period embossed brass frame. Condition: Toning, foxing. Provenance: Peter Vorhees, New Brunswick, Erskine Hewitt sale 1938. Note: Mary Ten Broek was the wife of Cornelius Ten Broek, purportedly an Aide de Camp to George Washington. John Jarvis was born in South Shield, England, a nephew of theologian John Wesley At the age of five he was brought to Philadelphia and apprenticed in engraving to Edward Savage In 1801, he and Savage went to New York City, where Jarvis went into partnership doing miniature portraits with Joseph Wood