Americana
Americana
Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
Mary Lippincott Quicksall and Her Ninth Son, Joseph, of Burlington County, New Jersey
Lot Closed
January 25, 08:46 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
pastel on paper
circa 1810-1811
25 in. by 20 in.
the verso with Harry E. Blankarn's certificate of membership to the Sons of the American Revolution, New Jersey Society, by descent from Jonathan Quicksall Jr.
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Descended in the Quicksall family:
Jonathan Quicksall Jr. (1760-1836) and Mary Lippincott (1767-1820), Burlington County, New Jersey;
maybe Mary Colston Quicksall (1807-1892) and her husband, John Blankarn (1807-1889); or Joseph Quicksall (1810-1850) in portrait, Burlington County, New Jersey;
maybe William A. Blankarn (b. 1849) and Jennie Pullen, his wife (b. 1856);
Harry E. Blankarn (b. 1874);
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Weekend Americana Auction, August 6, 2000, lot 897.
Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 245-6, fig. 417.
Mary Lippincott (1770-1820) married Jonathan Quicksall (1760-1836), a blacksmith who served in the American Revolution, in Evesham, New Jersey. Joseph, the baby in the portrait, was born June 16, 1810, the ninth of ten children and appears to be no more than a year old in the pastel. The portrait was completed circa 1811 which makes it the earliest Micah Williams pastel known. The inscription on verso that states the portrait was taken on 1823 is inaccurate given Joseph's birthday and age in in the painting. Joseph holds a love token attached to a green cord around his neck which was to give him for good fortune. It is a US silver half dollar issued 1807-1838, showing a spread winged eagle and on the back of the coin is a “capped bust of Liberty”.
In the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Joseph was a night watchman at the Nobel Street wharf on the Delaware River. A cousin, Lippincott, had gone to refill a rum bottle and as he was returning to the wharf, he saw Joseph fall on the deck and roll overboard and died at the age of 39. His wife, Emily Wharton, died earlier of TB and their three young children were now orphans.
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