Attributed to Jacob Maentel (1763 - 1863)

James Grievo, Stockton, New Jersey;

Paul and Rita Flack, Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania;

Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, The Flack Collection, October 28, 2000, lot 225;

David Wheatcroft, Westboro, Massachusetts;

Bill Subjack, Neverbird Antiques, Surry, Virginia, 2006.

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 231, fig. 403.

According to Mary Black's chapter on Jacob Maentel in American Folk Painters of Three Centuries, Jacob Mattell (sic) is listed in the city directories of Baltimore in 1807 and 1818 as a portrait painter. Chathin Ranyolds, Anglicized to Catherine Reynolds, was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1802 and painted by Maentel in 1818 when she was 16 years-old. She married James J. Demmitt (1801-1853), in Baltimore in 1824, and they had ten children and moved to in Tipp City, Miami County, Ohio, where Catherine later died in 1866 at the age of 83. In an article on Jacob Maentel in The Clarion, Fall 1983, Valerie Redler stated that there were no known portraits painted by Maentel in Baltimore, even though it was known that he was in the Baltimore directories in 1807 and 1818. The Warwicks own two paintings by Maentel: Chathrin Ranyolds and Edward Shiver (see lot XX), who were both painted in Maryland.