Important Americana

Important Americana

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 28. William M.S. Doyle (1769 - 1828).

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

William M.S. Doyle (1769 - 1828)

A Young Man with a Red Book

Auction Closed

January 25, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

pastel on paper

circa 1815

26 in. by 22 in.


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M. Austin and Jill R. Fine Collection;

Sotheby's, New York, Americana from the Collection of M. Austin & Jill R. Fine, January 30, 1987, sale 5552, lot 849;

Samuel Herrup, Connecticut Antiques Show, 1996.

Arthur B. and Sybil B. Kern, "The Pastel Portraits of William M.S. Doyle," The Clarion (Fall, 1988), pp. 41-47;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 247, fig. 418.