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Property from the Chester Family Collection, Virginia

Charles Peale Polk

George Washington at Princeton

Live auction begins on:

January 24, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Bid

350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Chester Family Collection, Virginia

Charles Peale Polk

1767 - 1822


George Washington at Princeton

oil on canvas

signed Cs. Polk Painter and numbered No. 30 (on the reverse)

36 by 27 ¾ in.

91.4 by 70.5 cm.

Executed circa 1790-93.

General William Dunn Bond, Tyrone, Ireland

Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 19 February 1971, lot 125

James A. Williams, Savannah, Georgia

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in June 1971)

The James S. Copley Library, San Diego (acquired from the above in 1971)

Sotheby's New York, 19 May 2010, lot 6 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Linda Crocker Simmons, Charles Peale Polk, 1767-1822, A Limner and His Likenesses, Washington D.C. 1981, no. 18, p. 28, illustrated