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Unsigned, inscribed "John Brewster Pinxt March 31, 1828 Aunt Eliza Kendall married...Israel Hunt M... N.H." on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in., framed. CONDITION Good, lined, scattered retouch, craquelure. N.B.: Elizabeth Kendall, signed on the top stretcher John Brewster, Jr., March 31, 1828. Miss Kendall was born in New Hampshire about 1802 and became a textile designer, possibly in the Fuches Lace Making Company operating in the Waltham-Watertown area in 1822 and 1823. She drew patterns for embroidery to be hand-done on machine-produced netting. The result was called lace such as may be seen in her portrait. This lot includes numerous pen and ink free-hand drawings, some with color added. Since many of these are dated and signed by Elizabeth, or Eliza, or her sister Rebecca Kendall, and annotated, they serve to document her work as a designer of textile patterns, a bookkeeper "in the cloth room", and someone who often executed her own designs to the finished product. Many of the signed and dated patterns also indicate the particular piece of clothing for which it was prepared and the inteded recipient. The earliest and most numerous designes were in the early 1820's, a few in the 1830's and the latest in 1858. PROVENANCE This oil on canvas portrait and the daguerreotype of her, plus numerous free-hand textile designs she annotated, signed and dated have been in the sitter's family since their execution.