Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art
Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art
Property from a Private Vermont Collection
Sheldon Peck
Pair of Portraits: Origen Brigham Herrick and Anna Scoville Herrick
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January 21, 05:32 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Vermont Collection
Sheldon Peck
1797 - 1868
Pair of Portraits: Origen Brigham Herrick and Anna Scoville Herrick
oil on wood panel
circa 1828
The woman: Height 25 1/4 in. by Width 20 1/2 in.; The man: Height 24 3/4 in. by Width 20 1/2 in.
each appears to be in their original ebonized wood frame
Sheldon Peck was born in Cornwall, Vermont in 1797, and like most folk artists, was primarily self-taught, receiving little formal training, instead copying other itinerant artists of the period. Sheldon Peck began painting around 1820 in his native Vermont, before moving to Western New York in 1828, and then to Illinois in 1836. His early efforts on wood panel quickly established his spartan approach to his craft - sober, strong faces with hard, angular planes unsoftened by any decorative treatment of dress or furniture, emerge from dark backgrounds in the Vermont works. The portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Origen Herrick were likely executed by Peck while still living in New York to commemorate their marriage in Baldwinville, New York, in 1828.