PROPERTY FROM THE WOLF FAMILY COLLECTION
John Quincy Adams Ward
A Bust of Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard
No reserve
Lot Closed
January 20, 06:20 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
John Quincy Adams Ward
1830 - 1910
Bust of Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard
inscribed J.Q.A. WARD / Sculptor. and CAST BY THE HENRY-BONNARD BRONZE CO. N-Y. 1894. (along the base)
bronze
26 in. (66 cm.) high
Conceived in 1894; this example cast before 1910.
Samuel Feldman Antiques, New York
Christie's, New York, 22 May 1980, lot 301
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986-2023 (on loan)
Lewis I. Sharp, John Quincy Adams Ward: Dean of American Sculpture, with a Catalogue Raisonné, Newark, 1985, no. 97.2, p. 245, illustrated
