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Here is an Absolutely Gorgeous & Ultra-Rare OOP (Long Out-of-Print) Vintage 1972
Fine-grain Collotype Lithograph Standing Portrait of ‘Betsy Merle (née James) Wyeth’
(1921-2020), wife of the world-famous listed painter, ‘Andrew Wyeth’ (American, 1917-
2009) titled, “Outpost”, after his original 1968 egg tempera painting. The mill was built
about 1720, expanded in 1769, and renovated in 1824. The granary was built about
1824, when the mill was expanded. Also on the property is a stone dwelling constructed
in the 1920s and built on the foundation of an early 18th-century dwelling. During the
Battle of Brandywine in September 1777, General John Sullivan and his troops were
bivouacked at the adjacent Brinton’s Ford. In 1958, Andrew and Betsy Wyeth purchased
and restored “The Mill,” and group of 18th-century buildings that appeared often in his
work. Andrew & Betsy spent half their time in Cushing, ME, but each fall they returned
to Chadds Ford and resided in their winter home of old Brinton’s Mill, which Betsy had
remodeled into comfortable private living quarters. The scene depicts Betsy standing in
the snow just outside the ‘Carriage Shed’ on a cold winter day on their historic old
estate called “Brinton’s Mill” located in Chadds Ford, PA, and to the rear is the granary.
The Mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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