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Property from the Estate of S. Hallock du Pont, Jr.

N.C. Wyeth

Mr. Campbell, The Minister of Essendean (With that he prayed a little while aloud, and in affecting terms, for a young man setting out into the world)

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November 22, 10:23 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from the Estate of S. Hallock du Pont, Jr.

N.C. Wyeth

1882 - 1945

Mr. Campbell, The Minister of Essendean (With that he prayed a little while aloud, and in affecting terms, for a young man setting out into the world)



signed NC Wyeth and inscribed © CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS (lower left)

oil on canvas

canvas: 40 by 32 inches (101.6 by 81.3 cm)

framed: 47 ½ by 39 ½ inches (120.6 by 100.3 cm)

Painted in 1913.

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1954 (acquired from the above)
Clement R. Hoopes, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, 1964 (acquired from the above)
Sold: Richard W. Withington Auction, Andover, Massachusetts, January 9, 1971
J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1973
Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751, New York, 1913, p. 7,  illustrated
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 218
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. I-465, p. 268-9, illustrated