
The Hudson River School in Focus: Property from the Friedman Collection
Millbrook near Shelburne, New Hampshire
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January 20, 07:37 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Hudson River School in Focus: Property from the Friedman Collection
William Louis Sonntag
1822 - 1900
Millbrook near Shelburne, New Hampshire
signed WL. Sonntag (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 by 36 in.
50.8 by 91.4 cm.
Executed circa 1869.
Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist in 1869)
Mrs. Evelyn Sampson, Boston
[with] Vose Galleries, Boston (acquired from the above, 1954)
Private Collection, Falmouth, Maine (acquired by 1973)
[with] Vose Galleries (acquired from the above in 1973)
Private Collection, Falmouth, Maine (acquired in 1976)
Richard A. Bourne Co., Inc., Hyannis, Massachusetts, 28 November 1980, lot 47
Christie's, New York, 3 December 1982, lot 13
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above in March 1986 by the present owner
Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Refining the Imagination: Tradition, Collection, and the Vassar Education, April - September 1999, no. 46
Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University and Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, A Focused Collection: The Hudson River School, April - October 2007, no. 11, pp. 26 and 27, illustrated in color
Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, William Louis Sonntag: Artist of the Ideal 1822-1900, Los Angeles 1980, fig. 41, p. 47, illustrated