Portrait of Young Boy

"Prior-Hamblin School" denotes paintings that connot be securely attributed, but that resemble the work of William Matthew Prior (1806-1873), Sturtevant Hamblin (1817-1884), or other artists identified with this group, all active in the mid-19th century. Prior and Hamblin were brothers-in-law and portrait painters who worked in New York and Boston and are known to have collaborated.