Charles Edwin Allen (1838-1915), (painting).

Charles Edwin Allen (1838-1915), (painting).

Unknown, painter.

Charles Edwin Allen (1838-1915), (painting).

Sight: 33 x 27 1/2 in.

Portrait of Charles Edwin Allen as a young boy sitting on a dog lying on the ground. The child's right hand rests on the dog's neck and the child's left hand rests across the dog's back. The child has blond hair and blue eyes. He wears a red dress. In the background there is a landscape of a sunset.

Portrait male -- Allen, Charles Edwin -- Child

Landscape -- Time -- Sunset

Formerly in the collection of Allen, Elizabeth, 18 Ridgewood Drive, Burlington, Vermont 05401 before 1992.

Charles Edwin Allen, the son of Joseph Dana and Eliza (Johnson) Allen, was born on May 22, 1838 in Burlington, Vermont. He married Wllen Cornelia Lyman of Burlington. He died on Oct. 31, 1915.

National Society of Colonial Dames, Vermont, 1982, 1992.

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