Maine Antique Digest, April 2017

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Maine Antique Digest, April 2017 27-C
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27-C
44" x 32½", $118,750 (est.
$30,000/50,000); Joseph Rusling
Meeker’s Near Bayou Lafourche, oil
on canvas, 24" x 20", $68,750 (est.
$25,000/35,000); a Severin Roesen still
life, oil on canvas, 30" x 40", $65,000
(est. $30,000/50,000); Charles Giroux’s
St. Tammany Parish, oil on canvas, 14"
x 24", $60,000 (est. $5000/7000); James
Walker’s The Battle of Chapultepec,
oil on paper laid to canvas, 14½" x
35½", $50,000 (est. $10,000/15,000);
Martin Johnson Heade’s Red Rose in a
Standing Vase, oil on board, 16" x 8",
$50,000 (est. $50,000/70,000); Thomas
Hill’s view of Glacier Peak (cataloged
as Crater Lake, Tacoma, Washington),
oil on canvas, 32½" x 48¾", $43,750
(est. $30,000/50,000); James Hamilton
Shegogue’s The Zouave Que Vive, oil
on canvas, 38½" x 35½", $40,000 (est.
$30,000/50,000); Nicola Marschall’s
portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant,
oil on canvas, 27" x 22", $37,500
(est. $5000/10,000); Thomas Addison
Richards’s Indian Ceremony, oil on
canvas, 21½" x 32", $37,500 (est.
$20,000/30,000); Alexandre Alaux’s
“City of East St. Louis” (Riverboat) ,
oil on canvas, 22" x 27", $37,500
(est. $5000/7000); and Gilbert Gaul’s
Confederate Calvary Scouts in the
Wilderness, oil on paper laid down
on canvas, 25" x 30", $32,500 (est.
$15,000/25,000). Looking carefully
at the paintings shown in the interior
photos of the home published in the
catalog shows clearly that the family
kept some paintings.
Five pictures by William Henry
Buck (1840-1888) sold, led by Lookout
Fishing Club, a 12" x 20" oil on canvas,
executed in 1880, at $162,500 (est.
$50,000/70,000). Buck’s Bay St. Louis
Plantation Scene, a 22¼" x 36" oil on
canvas laid down on board, brought
$106,250 (est. $70,000/100,000);
Louisiana Bayou with Deer, an 18"
x 30" oil on canvas signed and dated
1881, $81,250 (est. $25,000/35,000);
Camp on a Bayou, oil on canvas, 15" x
20", $27,500 (est. $12,000/18,000); and
Cows in a Pasture, oil on canvas, 9¼" x
12¾", painted in 1880, $21,250. Some
felt that the Buck paintings would have
done better in New Orleans, where they
typically bring six-figure prices.
“If you had the opportunity to see that
house—furnished as it was—you would
be pretty impressed,” said Hicklin.
“Christie’s did a good job. I commend
them.”
For more information, contact
Christie’s at (212) 636-2000 or check
the website ).
“Nice to find something from near your hometown,” said a collector who lives near Bay St.
Louis, Mississippi, shortly after winning Bay St. Louis Plantation Scene by William Henry
Buck (1840-1888). The collector paid $106,250 (est. $70,000/100,000) for this 22¼" x 36" oil
on canvas laid down on board.
The collector who underbid Clague’s North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain was the
buyer at $162,500 of William Henry Buck’s Lookout Fishing Club, this 12" x 20" oil
on canvas that was estimated at $50,000/70,000. He was underbid by the phone.
Thomas Hill’s 32½" x 48¾" oil on canvas was originally cataloged as Crater Lake,
Tacoma, Washington. The description was altered to possibly Glacier Peak in
Washington by sale time. A phone bidder paid $43,750 (est. $30,000/50,000) for it.
“It’s the earliest life portrait of
Winfield Scott,” said dealer James
Kochan of Wiscasset, Maine, of this
43¼" x 33¼" oil on canvas wartime
portrait cataloged as in the manner
of Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Kochan
paid $10,625 (est. $2000/3000) for it,
underbid by the phone.
James Kochan paid $27,500 for the patinated
metal sculpture of General Andrew Jackson
on Horseback after Clark Mills (1810-1883).
The 23¾" x 19" x 7¾" sculpture is stamped
“Patented / May 15 / 1855 Cornelius and
Baxter / Philadelphia” on the base. The
underbidder was Robert Hicklin Jr.
Near Bayou Lafourche by Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827-1887), oil
on canvas, 24" x 20", signed and dated 1882, ex-Hirschl & Adler,
sold for $68,750 (est. $25,000/35,000) to a phone bidder, underbid
by a collector. The next lot, Atchafalaya River Swamp by Meeker
(not shown), oil on canvas, 14" x 18", sold to another phone
bidder for $21,250 (est. $15,000/25,000).