A young lady, by Samuel P. Howes, circa 1840.

Set in the original gilded copper locket frame with aperture on the reverse containing plaited hair, the initials E E M engraved below the aperture.

2 5/16 inches high.

Samuel P. Howes (1806-1881), a folk art artist of distinctive charm, painted the working people of Boston and Lowell, Massachusetts. Before moving to Lowell in 1835, Howes worked from various addresses in Boston form 1829. In Lowell, merchants and mill workers became Howes' subjects. By 1845, in an attempt to change with the times, he was advertising as a "daguerreotypist and portrait painter." Howes painted until the year of his death, creating honest portrayals of his working class neighbors. Now much sought-after, Howes' work is represented in the New York State Historical Association/Fenimore Art Museum, the New-York Historical Society and The Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, Massachusetts.