Ammi Phillips (1788-1865)

painted circa 1840.

John Gordon Gallery, New York

new stretchers and frame, unlined; please note additions to catalogue note: Sally Totten Sutherland was born in 1787 in Amenia, New York to Israel and Esther Totten. She married Roger Barton Sutherland, and remained in Amenia, where her portrait was painted by Ammi Phillips around 1840. One of four identical portraits (she had Phillips do a portrait for each of her four daughters)-the only variation being the treatment of lace on her collar, which was Phillip's method of coding which portrait went to which daughter. The present example was painted for Totten Sutherland Randall, wife of Colonel Henry Rundall. Provenance: Koster Antique Shop, White Plains, New York, 1959 Barbara and Lawrence Holdridge, Owings Mills, Maryland Literature: Barbara and Lawrence Holdridge, Ammi Phillips, 1788-1865, Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin (October, 1965), number 143 Barbara and Lawrence Holdridge with Mary Black, Ammi Phillips, Portrait Painter, 1788-1865 (New York, 1969), catalogue number 216, p. 51 Stacy Hollander and Howard Fertig, Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture (New York 1994), p. 74 Exhibitions: The American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Ammi Phillips Portrait Painter 1788-1865, Albany, New York, October 14 to December 1, 1968 and December 9, 1968 to January 7, 1969
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