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.

Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts.

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.