Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
Micah Williams (1782 - 1837)
Daniel and Eleanor Schenck of Pleasant Valley, Monmouth County, New Jersey: A Pair
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 25, 06:34 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
pastel on Paper
dated May 25, 1819
25 in. by 21 in.
both portraits with printed label affixed to frame, Property of Mrs. L.W. Lemaire/ 32 Edgemere Dr./ Matawan, N.J. His portrait with original label on verso inscribed Daniel I. Schanck aged 40 years 5 months / taken May 25, 1819; her portrait with similar original label inscribed Eleanor Schanck/ Aged 36 years 4 months/ taken 25th May 1819.
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Remained in the family until 1993;
James Grievo, Stockton, New Jersey;
Samuel Herrup, Sheffield, Massachusetts, 1994.
Monmouth County Historical Association, Micah Williams Exhibition, May 19 -October 9, 2013.
Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 243, fig. 414a-b and 415.
Daniel I Schanck was the sixth child of 14 children to Revolutionary War hero, Captain John Schanck, born in 1778. Daniel's brothers Garret and John were silversmiths in New York City and Middletown Point, today Matawan, New Jersey. Daniel lived in Pleasant Valley, Middletown, now part of Holmdel, New Jersey, as a farmer and businessman. Eleanor Schanck was the eighth child of Garret G. Schanck and Sarah R. Conover, and was born in 1783. They were first cousins as their fathers were brothers and had no children. Eleanor died July 15, 1858 and Daniel died three months later on October 23, 1858.
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