Lot 98
  • 98

JASPER FRANCIS CROPSEY | William Penn's Wedding (A Wedding Procession, Stoke Poges Church)

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Jasper Francis Cropsey
  • William Penn's Wedding (A Wedding Procession, Stoke Poges Church)
  • signed J.F. Cropsey and dated 1870 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 23 1/2 by 40 1/4 inches
  • (60 by 102.2 cm)

Provenance

Stair-Murdock Fine Arts, New York, by 1981
Private collection (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, October 22, 1981, lot 65)
Acquired by the present owners at the above sale

Literature

Kenneth W. Maddox and Anthony M. Speiser, Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, Works in Oil 1864-1884, vol. II, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 2016, no. 1020, p. 1870

Condition

The canvas is lined and the edges are covered with tape. There is frame abrasion at edges and there is some minor discoloration in the sky. Under UV: There is some inpainting along the bottom edge and a 3 inch V-shaped line of inpainting in the sky at upper right likely to address a repaired tear.
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