MASSACHUSETTS, 1740-1760

This dressing table was formerly in the collection of Ellerton M. Jette (1900-1987), president of C.F. Hathaway Company, a manufacturer of shirts, in Waterville, Maine. From 1950 until his death, he was a trustee of Colby College and along with his wife, Edith, donated their collections of American paintings to the Colby College Museum of Art. The gifts included folk art, titled "The American Heritage Collection of Folk Art," academic colonial portraiture and American impressionism and in 1973 the College named its Jette Gallery in their honor. See "Ellerton M. Jette, 87, Dies; Ex-Head of Hathaway Shirts," The New York Times (3 January 1987), available online at nytimes.com; "The Summer of 2008-A Maine Folk Art Banquet," Maine Antique Digest, available online at maineantiquedigest.com; American Painters of the Impressionist Period Rediscovered: A Collection Presented to the Colby College Art Museum By Edith Kemper Jette and Ellerton Marcel Jette (Waterville, Maine, 1975).