Lot Closed
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