Two Centuries: American Art
Two Centuries: American Art
Property Sold To Benefit The Acquisition Fund Of The San Diego Museum Of Art
William Merritt Chase
Mrs. Margaret Creighton Bateman, Shelter Island, New York
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October 6, 06:27 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Property Sold To Benefit The Acquisition Fund Of The San Diego Museum Of Art
William Merritt Chase
1849 - 1916
Mrs. Margaret Creighton Bateman, Shelter Island, New York
oil on canvas
canvas: 24 ¼ by 20 ¼ inches (61.6 by 51.4 cm)
framed: 34 by 30 inches (86.4 by 76.2 cm)
Painted circa 1870.
Mrs. Eleanor B. Parks
Gift to the present owner from the above, by 1949
Gift to the present owner from the above, by 1949
Barbara Dayer Gallati, William Merritt Chase, New York, 1995, p. 8, illustrated
Ronald G. Pisano, D. Frederick Baker, and Carolyn K. Lane, William Merritt Chase: Portraits in Oil; The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006, vol. II, no. OP. 8, p. 4, illustrated
Ronald G. Pisano, D. Frederick Baker, and Carolyn K. Lane, William Merritt Chase: Portraits in Oil; The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006, vol. II, no. OP. 8, p. 4, illustrated
William Merritt Chase received the commission to paint this portrait of Mrs. Creighton Bateman, wife of American illustrator, Horatio Bateman, before completing his education at the National Academy of Design in 1870. Bateman is best known for his ambitious engraving, Reconstruction, which he completed in 1867. Reconstruction is a personal allegory for what the artist hoped would define American society after the Reconstruction effort, specifically racial equality and individual freedom under the Constitution.