A Folk Art Portrait of Johnathan Southwick in Red with Hoop Toy Portrait of Jonathan Southwick in Red with Hoop Toy circa 1835 oil on canvas, in period gilt frame 39 6/8 x 29 5/8 inches. The brilliantly colored portrait contains a discretely hidden detail. Through the window, Jonathan can be seen running along the sidewalk playing with the hoop toy that he proudly holds in his full-length portrait. By repute, this delightful portrait of the young Jonathan Southwick was purchased at Sotheby's New York in the late 1980s, though a search of catalogs from that house from the mid 1980s onward found no such work. A search of birth records for "Jonathan Southwick" discovered one born in Bolton, Massaschusetts in 1831, and another born in Danvers, in 1841.