Property From the Collection of Raymond and Susan Egan

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Lot 28
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*, Samuel Addison Shute

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Description

  • Samuel Addison Shute
  • Portrait of a Young Lady Wearing a Striped Belt
  • watercolor, pencil and gouache on paper, with gilt paper appliqués
  • framed 27 3/4 by 22 1/4 in. 71 by 56.5 cm.
painted circa 1835; in a period frame.

Provenance

Collection of Betty Sterling, New York

Sold in these rooms, Important American Furniture and Folk Art, December 8, 1984, Sale 5228, lot 25

Gerald Kornblau, American Art, New York

Exhibited

A Loving Likeness: American Folk Portraits of the Early 19th Century, The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey, 1992

Literature

Helen Kellogg, Antiques World, December 1987, pp. 37-47, fig. 1

Marna Anderson, A Loving Likeness: American Folk Portraits of the Early 19th Century, Princeton, New Jersey, 1992, illustrated in color, p. 37

Catalogue Note

This is one of the very few portraits by Samuel Shute in private hands.