Fraser, Charles Charleston, SC (1782-1860) PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF THOMAS GILMAN FLETCHER; facing right in a black coat and white shirt with high collar and black stock, seated in a red chair watercolour on ivory, a hinged red leather case with ormolu matting unsigned H 3.125in W 2.75in *History: Thomas Gilman Fletcher (1801-1839) was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1824, where he studied law. On June 8, 1837 Fletcher married Lucia Adeline Jenks of Boston. Due to his illness he set sail to Cuba, where his daughter Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923) was born on the 15th of March. Alice became the foremost woman anthropologists in the United States in the nineteenth century and instrumental in the adoption of the policy of severalty that dominated Native American Indian affairs in the 1880's. Quotes from A STRANGER IN HER NATIVE LAND, ALICE FLETCHER AND THE AMERICAN INDIANS, by: Joan Mark. *Provenance: This portrait miniature catalogued in A SHORT SKETCH OF CHARLES FRASER AND A LIST OF MINIATURES AND OTHER WORKS, Carolina Art Association, Gibbes Art Gallery, January 29th - February 26th, 1934. An original exhibition catalogue accompanies the sale of this lot, listing the miniature on page 31 as property of Mrs. G. Davis Pearlman, Washington, DC. This miniature was purchased by Mr. G. Davis Pearlman at prominent Washington DC book dealer in the 1930's and 40's from the estate of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (daughter of the sitter); and is currently in the collection of their daughter, Dr. Shirley Pearlman Leva.