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Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey

Frederick Kemmelmeyer (1752/53 - 1820/1825)

A Young Lady in Mourning

No reserve

Auction Closed

January 25, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

pastel on paper

circa 1803

19 ½ in. by 15 in.


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Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts;

Joseph Del Sorbo, Woodbury, Connecticut;

Tom Tafuri, Roxbury, Connecticut;

Joan Brownstein, Delaware Antiques Show, 2005.

Advertisement for the ADA/ Historic Deerfield Antiques Show and Joan R. Brownstein Art & Antiques, Magazine ANTIQUES, October 2005, Vol. CLXVII, No. 4, p.54 and 57

Advertisement, Antiques & Fine Art, Autumn/Winter 2005, Vo. VI, Issue 4;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 240-1, fig. 411.

 For more information and related works by Frederick Kemmelmeyer, see E. Bryding Adams, “Frederick Kemmelmeyer, Maryland Itinerant Artist,” The Magazine ANTIQUES, vol. cxxv, no. 1 (January 1984): 284-292 and A. Nicholas Powers, "Research Note: Frederick Kemmelmeyer—From Hessian Soldier to American Artist" The MESDA Journal, 2013.