Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
Micah Williams (1782 - 1837)
Ellen Vanderveer of Marlboro, Monmouth County, New Jersey
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 25, 06:34 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
pastel on paper
circa 1819
19 in. by 17 in.
the verso backed with newspaper dated 1819.
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Estate Sale of Susan Swanson, Pelham, New York, August 12, 1995.
Monmouth County Historical Association, Micah Williams Exhibition, May 19th-October 9th, 2013.
estate tag sale in Pelham, New York in an advertisement in Antiques & the Arts Weekly in 1995;
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 244-5, fig. 416.
Ellen L. Vanderveer was born to parents David R. Vanderveer and Eliza Holmes Ellis in February 1816. Her father was a farmer and raised peaches, hence she holds a peach. Ellen married Jacob Covenhoven (1810- 1846) on June 15, 1836 at the age of 20, and died ten years later on September 24, 1846 in labor with her fourth child. Her child died two months later in November and her husband Jacob died in December 1846, three months after his wife.
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