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Framed oil portrait of Sally Norcross Flynt (1780-1863) with dark hair parted in the middle, wearing a white bonnet tied with a black ribbon, white fischu, and black coat. The portrait was bought by HD founder Henry N. Flynt (1893-1970) along with a portrait of Sally's husband, Rufus Flynt (HD 66.123A.1), from Rufus Roleson Flynt in 1966. Sally and Rufus married in 1800, and had four children - one, William Norcross Flynt (1818-1895), was the grandfather of Henry Needham Flynt. Rufus Flynt was a successful businessman, including establishing Flynt Quarry, a granite quarry, that opened in 1809 in Monson, Massachusetts to originally supply granite for the construction of the Springfield Armory. It was later used to supply granite to virtually all buildings in Monson that are made of granite, including the Memorial Town Hall, the library, the Universalist church, and all of the monuments in town. The quarry went into decline with the introduction of concrete as a more popular form of construction, and the quarry was finally closed by around 1935. The painter has not been identified. Frederick Robinson, once Director of the Springfield Museum of Fine Art, suggested that the artist was William S. Elwell (1810-1881) who had studied with the portrait painter Chester Harding (1792-1866) of Springfield.
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