Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
John Brewster Jr. (1766 - 1854)
A Young Gentleman
Lot Closed
January 25, 08:33 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
oil on panel
circa 1825-30
27 ⅛ in. by 22 ½ in.
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Skinner Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, August 1999, lot 318A;
David Wheatcroft, Westboro, Massachusetts.
A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr., April 1- December 31, 2005, Fennimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York; February 5- April 30, 2006, Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, Florida; June 4- September 10, 2006, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme Connecticut; October 4, 2006- January 7, 2007, Museum of American Folk Art, New York; January 26- April 29, 2007, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine.
Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105.
According to Leslie and Peter Warwick, there are only two other Brewster portraits on wood panel known: 1) a young girl in Williams College Collection (acc no. M.2000.15), and 2) a young boy bought by Stephen Score at Christie's, New York, The John Gordon Collection of Folk Americana, January 19, 1999, sale 9052, lot 331.
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