Portrait of Mary Lavinia Brooks Owen, née Mary Lavinia Brooks, at the age of 5, 1849, oil on canvas, 34 x 27 inches. Period c.1860 American painting frame, gilded applied composition ornament on wood, molding width 5-1/2 in. “Mary Lavinia Brooks (1844–1901) was the daughter of Edward Sands Brooks and Adeline Matilda Cremer Leveridge Brooks, who married William Henry Owen, an episcopal priest and noted coin collector. The young girl holds a copy of a Victorian gift book titled Birth-Day Gift or The Birth-Day Present expressly for the purpose of promoting gift-giving.” —museum exhibition label.

Adelaide, John and George Brooks, 1853, oil on canvas, 17 x 14 in., frame restored by Gill & Lagodich.