Premier Auction - Session II - November 18, 2023 | Lot 1008-1473
Sat, Nov 18, 2023 09:00AM EST
Live Auction
Lot 1132
Portrait of George Washington after Gilbert Stuart
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
Sold for
$15,000
Sold Price excludes BP
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
(American, 1755-1828)
A fine copy of Gilbert Stuart's Athenaeum type portraits, unsigned, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in.; period carved gilt wood frame, 36-1/2 x 31-1/2 in.
Provenance: (Per Keno Auctions) Purchased about 1817 by Israel Kinsman (1789-1862) for his home at 359 Arch Street, Philadelphia, the acquisition coinciding with his marriage (1817) to Elizabeth Walker (1797-1848). The portrait is later listed in an 1835 inventory of Israel Kinsman’s possessions completed by Robert Morris esq. as “Stuart-Washington in oil color” in “Front room 2nd story”; his wife Elizabeth Walker Kinsman (1797-1848) 1841 through a Trust; by descent to Elizabeth’s children: Charles (born abt. 1820), Henry (1822-1902) and Louise Kinsman (born abt. 1825); by descent 1849 (family division of property) to Louise Kinsman; by descent to her nephew, (Israel Kinsman’s grandson), Edgar Kinsman (1860-1932) of Stratford, N.J.; purchased in 1919 by Louis Ralston & Son Gallery (Ralston Galleries) New York City; James E. McClees (1858-1954) of Walnut Street, Philadelphia; John Huggens Earley (1869-1920) of Hilltop, Germantown, Pennsylvania; by descent to his son, John Thomas Earley (1904-1964) & daughter Anne Lescure Mansfield Earley (1908-2004); by descent, to Anne’s daughter Anne Lescure Earley (1942-2018) m. 1964, Terry Luther Foulke, Sr.; by descent to the present owner, 2018; Keno Auctions (as Gilbert Stuart), January 23,2021, purchased for $364,800; Important Private Virginia Estate
Footnotes for Provenance: (1) Mantle Fielding, Gilbert Stuart’s Portraits of George Washington, Wickersham Printing Co., Lancaster PA., 1923, p. 196, No. 75; Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works, (New York, William Edwin Rudge) 1926, Vol l, p. 47 and Vol ll, p. 882, no. 75 (2) Hand-written letter by owner and grandson of Israel Kinsman, Edgar Kinsman entitled, History of the Kinsman Stuart -Washington (3) Ibid (4) Lula Merrick, “In The New York Art Galleries”, The Spur, March 15, 1920, p. 47 (5) John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, Life Portraits of George Washington Catalogue of Original Paintings and Their Replicas, (Philadelphia), 1931, pp. 296-297
Condition
original stretchers and canvas, areas of retouch throughout, canvas slightly loose at corners; frame with some abrasions, re-gilt
Label verso: Richmond Conservation Studio, July 2021
A file of conservation photographs is available upon request.
Purchased about 1817 by Israel Kinsman (1789-1862) for his home at 359 Arch Street, Philadelphia, the acquisition coinciding with his marriage (1817) to Elizabeth Walker (1797-1848). The portrait is later listed in an 1835 inventory of Israel Kinsman’s possessions completed by Robert Morris esq. as “Stuart-Washington in oil color” in “Front room 2nd story”; his wife Elizabeth Walker Kinsman (1797-1848) 1841 through a Trust; by descent to Elizabeth’s children: Charles (born abt. 1820), Henry (1822-1902) and Louise Kinsman (born abt. 1825); by descent 1849 (family division of property) to Louise Kinsman; by descent to her nephew, (Israel Kinsman’s grandson), Edgar Kinsman (1860-1932) of Stratford, N.J.; purchased in 1919 by Louis Ralston & Son Gallery (Ralston Galleries) New York City; James E. McClees (1858-1954) of Walnut Street, Philadelphia; John Huggens Earley (1869-1920) of Hilltop, Germantown, Pennsylvania; by descent to his son, John Thomas Earley (1904-1964) & daughter Anne Lescure Mansfield Earley (1908-2004); by descent, to Anne’s daughter Anne Lescure Earley (1942-2018) m. 1964, Terry Luther Foulke, Sr.; by descent to the present owner, 2018; Keno Auctions (as Gilbert Stuart), January 23,2021, purchased for $364,800; Important Private Virginia Estate
Footnotes for Provenance: (1) Mantle Fielding, Gilbert Stuart’s Portraits of George Washington, Wickersham Printing Co., Lancaster PA., 1923, p. 196, No. 75; Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works, (New York, William Edwin Rudge) 1926, Vol l, p. 47 and Vol ll, p. 882, no. 75 (2) Hand-written letter by owner and grandson of Israel Kinsman, Edgar Kinsman entitled, History of the Kinsman Stuart -Washington (3) Ibid (4) Lula Merrick, “In The New York Art Galleries”, The Spur, March 15, 1920, p. 47 (5) John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, Life Portraits of George Washington Catalogue of Original Paintings and Their Replicas, (Philadelphia), 1931, pp. 296-297
