Lot 1006
  • 1006

PAINTING OF WASHINGTON'S PASSAGE OF THE DELAWARE, AFTER THOMAS SULLEY, SAMUEL HAYDEN SEXTON (1830-1890), PROBABLY SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK, DATED 1839

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • oil on canvas; signed and dated on reverse of canvas: 'S.H. Sexton pinxd 1839'
  • 35 7/8 in. by 48 in.
oil on canvas; signed and dated on reverse of canvas S.H. Sexton pinxd 1839.

Provenance

Estate of the Late William and Priscilla Carlebach, Mystic, Connecticut and Bedford, New York;
Brunk Auctions, November 14, 2009, lot 472, Asheville, North Carolina.

Exhibited

Museum of Mourning Art, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.

Condition

Re-lined, re-stretched, and new frame. George Washington's face has been in-painted. There are widespread areas of in-painting and craquelure. Horses' head and neck in good shape, but there is in-painting and craquelure elsewhere.
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