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SAMUEL WALDO AND WILLIAM JEWETT | PORTRAIT OF STEPHEN ALLEN

Auction Closed

September 17, 04:16 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

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SAMUEL WALDO AND WILLIAM JEWETT

1783 – 1861 and 1792 – 1874

PORTRAIT OF STEPHEN ALLEN


inscribed Stephen Allen/New York (lower right)

oil on panel

33 by 25 ½ inches

(83.8 by 64.8 cm)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1974

First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1975 (acquired from the above)

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2004

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1767, Stephen Allen served as the mayor of New York City from 1821-24. He died in the sinking of the Henry Clay, the deadliest steamship disaster on the Hudson River in history, in 1852.