Maine Antique Digest April 2015

24-B Maine Antique Digest, April 2015

- AUCTION -

The James Bard (1815-1897) painting of the paddlewheel

steamboat

Nantasket

, oil on canvas, has been around. First

offered at Sotheby’s in June 1996, the ex-Mariners’ Museum

piece was bought in with an estimate of $30,000/40,000.

Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, sold

it in August 2013 for $21,600. (At that sale, auctioneer Ron

Bourgeault announced that it had restoration to the bottom

of the picture, including the signature.) This time around, it

sold for $15,860. Another version of the

Nantasket

by Bard is

in the collection of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont.

The topAmerican globe was

the New American ter-

restrial globe on stand,

1831, by J. Wilson &

Sons of Albany, New

York.

Measuring

19½" high x 18"

diameter, it brought

$13,420 from a phone

bid. James Wilson was

a Vermont farmer who

learned engraving and

eventually established

“the premier globe

manufactory of the new

world,” the catalog noted.

Edward Lear (1812-1888),

Mont Blanc from Pont Pel-

lisier

, 1862, oil on canvas, 13½" x 21¼", sold within the

$60,000/80,000 estimate for $73,200. (Lear is perhaps best

remembered for writing “The Owl and the Pussycat.”)

The last time Thomas Hill’s

Westward View from Union

Point, Yosemite Valley

crossed the auction block, it was

at Christie’s in Beverly Hills, California, on October

26, 2006. Then it brought $42,000. This time around

the 14" x 21" oil on board sold for $30,500. Another

Hill (1829-1908) in the sale,

Riders in Yosemite

, didn’t

sell; the estimate was $25,000/35,000.

The

Ohio River Valley Landscape

, oil on canvas, by Afri-

can-American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821-1872)

was estimated at $30,000/50,000 and sold to an absentee bidder

for $42,700. It had sold at Neal Auction Company in New Orle-

ans, Louisiana, in April 2012 for $65,725.

Indian Encampment on the Platte River

by George

Winter (1810-1876), 1860, oil on canvas, 23½" x

28½", inscribed “Indian Encampment/ On the Platte

River / Painted by / Geo. Winter / Artist. / … 1860,”

sold to a phone buyer on the line with Lori Cohen for

$10,980. When Sotheby’s sold it on September 29,

2010, it brought $20,000. (Sotheby’s tried to move it

on May 19, 2010, with an estimate of $40,000/60,000,

but it was bought in.) The English-born Winter

immigrated to the United States in 1830 and moved

to Indiana in 1837.

The Grand Canyon

by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh (1853-

1935), oil on canvas, 11" x 15½", dated June 4, 1903, sold

to an Internet bidder for $12,200 (est. $10,000/15,000).

According to his notes, Dellenbaugh based his finished

work on a colored sketch he executed “looking south

from the Kaibab Plateau, North Rim, near the head of

Bright Angel Creek.”

The Pierre-Joseph Redouté

(1759-1840) watercolor on vel-

lum,

Amaryllis Equestris (Barba-

dos Lady)

, was passed during the

sale (est. $150,000/200,000) but

sold after the sale for $268,400.

Another Redouté (not shown),

Amaryllis Aurea (Golden Hurri-

cane Lily)

, also was passed (est.

$150,000/200,000) but sold after

the sale for $183,000.

Top of all the globes in the sale,

the Globe Terrestre by Guillaume

Delisle (1675-1726), dated 1700,

sold for $151,280 (est. $40,000) to

a left bid. The globe had a diam-

eter of 12"; the whole unit mea-

sured 21 5/8" high x 18" diameter.

It rested on a brass axis and a par-

tially gilt wooden base, and had a

compass and a plateau indicating

the calendar, zodiac signs, and

direction. Guillaume Delisle, son

of Claude, was called “arguably

the most gifted member of his leg-

endary family of mapmakers” by

Arader.

A 23" x 35½" oil on canvas by French artist

Ernest Charton (1815-1877),

Quito, Ecuador

, was

estimated at $20,000/30,000 and sold to an Inter-

net bidder for $39,650.

Not only did the buyer get

The Last Shot

Frank Stick (1884-1966), but a 1928 calendar

with this painting was also included in the lot.

The 35" x 27¼" oil on canvas was estimated at

$15,000/20,000 and sold to Walter Arader exe-

cuting bids for a client who paid $10,370. Stick

was born in Huron, Dakota Territory, in 1884

and moved to Wisconsin when he was 17, work-

ing as a hunting and fishing guide and trapper.

He produced sketches and stories of his trav-

els, selling them to sporting magazines. In 1904

Stick enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago,

and then traveled to Wilmington, Delaware, to

study with Howard Pyle (1853-1911). He moved

to Interlaken, New Jersey, and worked as an

illustrator, contributing to

Collier’s

, the

Sat-

urday Evening Post

Sports Afield

, and

Field &

Stream

The circa 1792 portrait of a tennis player

by Jean-Louis Laneuville (1756-1826),

oil on canvas, 25¾" x 21¾", sold for

$85,400 (est. $70,000/80,000). The cata-

log noted that the portrait of the player,

also known as

paumier

, could have been

a master-player, professor, referee, or

championship organizer, who would have

been responsible for the stringing of the

rackets and shaping of the balls. It could

also be the portrait of a champion.

Simon Harmon Vedder (1866-1937),

Sioux Indians Going

to Pow Wow

, oil on canvas, dated 1922, 28" x 45½", sold

for $39,650 (est. $30,000/40,000) to Walter Arader execut-

ing bids for a client.

Sioux Indians Going to Pow Wow

had

sold at Bonhams, Bond Street, London, in December 2006

for $32,964. Vedder was born in New York City in 1866 and

studied at the Metropolitan Museum School and in Paris

at the Académie Julian and École des Beaux-Arts. He’s

known for his illustrations, including the 1922 edition of

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

and

The Talisman

by Sir Walter Scott.

Sioux Indians Going to Pow Wow

once belonged to British

archeologist General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Riv-

ers. In 1882, Pitt Rivers was appointed as the first inspector

of ancient monuments and in 1881-82 he was president of

the Anthropological Institute. In 1884, Pitt Rivers donated

20,000 objects to the Pitt Rivers Museum, which he founded

at Oxford University.