Lot 12
  • 12

Zedekiah Belknap (1781-1858)

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Zedekiah Belknap (1781-1858)
  • Portrait of a Child in a Red Dress and Red-Ribboned Shoes Holding a Basket of Fruit: Dorman Theodore Warren of Townsend, Massachusetts
  • oil on panel
  • 26 ½ in. by 22 in.
  • painted circa 1829
A label, formerly on the reverse, read: "Dorman Theodore Warren, /Born 1827. /Painted about 1829 by a strolling Artist, in 2 weeks, Townsend, Mass."

Provenance

Bihler and Coger, Ashley Falls, Massachusetts
William E. Wiltshire III, Richmond, Virginia
Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, American Folk Paintings and Watercolors, April 30, 1981, Sale 4593M, lot 21 and illustrated on cover of catalogue

Exhibited

American Federation of the Arts, Wiltshire Collection, no. 29

Literature

cf.  Elizabeth R. Mankin, "Zedekiah Belknap," The Magazine Antiques, November 1976, 1056-70