Two Centuries: American Art
Two Centuries: American Art
Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections
Robert Swain Gifford
Seconnet Rock, New Bedford, Massachusetts
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October 6, 07:50 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections
Robert Swain Gifford
1840 - 1905
Seconnet Rock, New Bedford, Massachusetts
signed R Swain Gifford (lower left)
oil on canvas
canvas: 14 ¼ by 22 ¼ inches (36 by 56.3 cm)
framed: 23 ½ by 31 ¼ inches (59.7 by 79.4 cm)
Gifted to the present owner from the above, 1915
The present work was originally owned by Charles A. Schieren (1842-1915), an established politician and banker in New York. Schieren immigrated from Germany in 1856 at the age of fourteen. He settled in Brooklyn and began working for his father’s cigar manufacturing business. Schieren became a prominent figure of the New York Republican Party, which culminated in his election as Mayor of Brooklyn in 1893. The present work was bequeathed to the Brooklyn Museum of Art upon Schieren’s death in 1915.