Important Americana

Important Americana

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

Winthrop Chandler (1747 - 1790)

An Overmantel for Reverend Putnam, Minister of the Congregational Church, Pomfret, Connecticut

Auction Closed

January 25, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

oil on pine board

circa 1777

26 ½ in. by 63 in.


housed in a modern grain-painted frame, 29 ¾ in. by 65 ½ in.; together with a transaction record written by Winthrop Chandler on December 25, 1773 and addressed to Dr. John Green of Worcester, Massachusetts.


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Reverend Aaron Putnam's Parsonage, Pomfret, Connecticut (1777-1871);

Grosvenor Inn, Pomfret, Connecticut (1872-1946);

The Pomfret School, stored in Old Sturbridge Village, (1946-2008);

Patrick Bell and Ed Hilde, Olde Hope Antiques, Delaware Antiques Show, 2009.

Nina Fletcher Little, "Winthrop Chandler," Art in America, Springfield, MA, April 1947 quarterly issue, Fig. 33, pp. 152-154;

Nina Fletcher Little, American Decorative Wall Painting 1700-1850, (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989), pp. 55-56, Fig. 52;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Antiques & Fine Art, Summer 2013, "Winthrop Chandler-The First American Painter of American Landscapes" pp. 156-165;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 30-1 and 278-285, fig. 57 and 464-472b.

Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts.