Property from Various Owners
Ammi Phillips (1788-1865)
Portrait of a Gentleman
Lot Closed
January 23, 08:19 PM GTNN
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ammi Phillips (1788-1865)
Portrait of a Gentleman
Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts vicinity
Oil on canvas
Circa 1850
Subject is in black frock coat and waist coat holding a newspaper entitled Flag.
32 3/4 by 26 1/2 in.
A Sheffield Massachusetts family;
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, January 30, 1988, sale 5680, lot 1550;
Private collects or;
C.L. Prickett, Yardley, Pennsylvania.
David Allaway, My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips- Volume 1, number 583, p. 212
David Allaway mentions in My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips, Volume 1 that the sitter may be a member of the Bartholomew family of Sheffield, Massachusetts based on the sitter's likeness to another one of Phillips's subjects; a painting of John Morse Bartholomew.
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