The Prat Sisters: Free Spirits of the 1890s

Inscription on reverse: "Portrait of Elizabeth Prat. Copied from original (which was probably painted in England about 1830) by Annie Louisa Prat, Wolfville, N.S., 1883." Elizabeth was Annie's grandmother and the wife of Samuel Prat of Glastonbury. Her husband died in 1845. In 1846, Elizabeth and her four sons emigrated to Paradise, Nova Scotia, to join a fifth brother recently settled there. Two of the brothers, George and Samuel, went to Wolfville. Samuel, father of the Prat sisters, became the first station master at Wolfville for the Windsor and Annapolis Railway Company. Elizabeth Prat died of typhoid fever on September 27, 1872.
Donated by the estate of Annie L. Prat, 1961.

Date: 1883

Format: Watercolour, with touches of gouache (copied from original)

Artist: Annie L. Prat

Reference: Prat, Starr family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-524 no. 504