Sturtevant J. Hamblen (fl. 1837-1856)

A Girl in Blue Holding Flowers

Auction Closed

January 25, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

oil on paper board

circa 1845

14 in. by 10 in.

housed in what appears to be the original grain-painted frame.

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Sold in Rocky & Avis Gardner's estate, 1995;

Wayne Pratt, Connecticut;

David Wheatcroft, Westboro, Massachusetts;

Sotheby's, New York, The Americana Collection of Marc and Laurie Krasny Brown, January 21, 2007, sale 8279, lot 74.

A closely related example of a portrait of a little girl with a pet rabbit is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, accession number 1953.5.70.