ZEDEKIAH BELKNAP | PAIR OF PORTRAITS: LADY AND GENTLEMAN
Auction Closed
January 25, 06:44 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ZEDEKIAH BELKNAP
(1781 - 1858)
PAIR OF PORTRAITS: LADY AND GENTLEMAN
oil on board
circa 1815
24 by 19 in.
in original paint decorated and gilt-stenciled frames; the lady in lace-trimmed empire gown with green shawl, the gentleman wearing a black frock coat with frilled white stock.
A minister in Marlow, New Hampshire who sold for his parishoners;
Rockwell Gardiner, Stamford, Connecticut;
Sotheby's New York, The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, January 29, 1994, sale 6526, lot 354;
James and Ann Lowder, Columbus, Ohio;
Marguerite Riordan, Stonington, Connecticut.
Williamsburg, Virginia, The Addy Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Zedekiah Belknap 1781-1858: Itinerant New England Portrait Painter, 1977.
Elizabeth Mankin, "Zedekiah Belknap 1781-1858: Itinerant New England Portrait Painter," Magazine Antiques, November 1976, pp. 1056-70, figs. 11-2;
Nina Fletcher Little, Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts, (New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1984), p. 116, fig. 152-3.