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HOWARD HELMICK | THE DISPENSARY DOCTOR- WEST OF IRELAND

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February 6, 05:26 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

HOWARD HELMICK

1845 - 1907

American

THE DISPENSARY DOCTOR- WEST OF IRELAND


signed H. Helmickand dated .83. (lower right)

oil on canvas

canvas: 22⅞ by 32¼ in.; 58.1 by 81.9 cm

framed: 28¼ by 37 in.; 71.8 by 94 cm

Possibly, sale: Henry Spencer, Retford, United Kingdom, May 7, 1976, lot 254

Sale: Sotheby’s, London, June 16, 1982, lot 204, illustrated 

Kurt E. Schon, Ltd., New Orleans 

Private Collection, Florida (acquired from the above in 1986) 

Thence by descent to the present owner 

Ronald D. Cassell, Medical Charities, Medical Politics: The Irish Dispensary System and the Poor Law, 1836-1872, Suffolk, 1997, illustrated on the cover

Claudia Kinmonth, Irish Rural Interiors in Art, New Haven, 2006, p. 241, illustrated (with an incorrect caption)

Possibly, London, Royal Academy, 1883, no. 1488