Collection of Dr. George and Connie Manger | June 24, 2026
Wed, Jun 24, 2026 10:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 535
Virginia Portrait by Charles-Balthazar-Julien Fevret de St. Memin
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Sold for
$3,250
Sold Price excludes BP
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| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
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(French/American, 1770-1852)
Virginia Portrait of Addison Bowles Armistead (Richmond 1807-1808), black and white chalk on prepared paper, 22 x 16 in.; possibly original gilt frame and eglomise mat, 32-1/2 x 27 in.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. George and Connie Manger
Literature: This is published in Miles, Ellen G., Saint Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America, 1994, Smithsonian Institution, 13, p. 238.
According to Miles, Addison Bowles Armistead, the brother of George Armistead, the "hero of Ft. McHenry" in the War of 1812, was a lieutenant and later a captain in the United States Army Artillery.
Quoted in Miles, "This portrait of Armistead was described in 1904 by the sitters granddaughter, Lucy Randolph Galt of Welbourne, Virginia as one of the sitter "in his uniform, a profile taken on the pinkish paper so often used by St Memin for his work."
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Collection of Dr. George and Connie Manger
foxing throughout upper half of image, glass mat with areas of loss, frame resurfaced
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