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Maine Antique Digest, April 2017 5-B
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This Thomas Chambers (1808-1869) oil on canvas, New York Harbor with Castle
Garden and Ships, oil on canvas, 22" x 30", circa 1840, sold on the phone for
$37,500 (est. $30,000/50,000). At the Winter Antiques Show, Elliott and Grace
Snyder sold View of Nahant, Massachusetts by Chambers for $32,000.
Thomas Jefferson Wright (1798-1846) painted this portrait of Eliza Jamison of
Virginia. It is signed “JEFFWRIGHT PAINTED 1831” lower right. Jamison
wears a flowered headdress and holds a music book. The 28¼" x 24¼" oil on
canvas sold for $20,000 (est. $6000/8000) in the salesroom to Laura Pass Barry,
curator of paintings, drawings, and sculpture at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Folk Art Museum in Colonial Williamsburg. Wright was born in Kentucky, but
information about his youth is largely unknown. He was acquainted with noted
portraitists Matthew Harris Jouett and Thomas Sully, and by about 1830 he was
living and painting in Virginia. In 1831 he painted portraits for the Major family
of Fairview Plantation in Culpeper County. The subject of this portrait may be
the Eliza Jamison who was born in 1808 in Rockbridge County, married George
Lynch, a cabinetmaker, in Augusta County in 1825, and died in Monroe County
(now West Virginia) in 1870.
This painted fireboard came from the Moses Martin house in Salem, New York. The
circa 1830 oil on canvas depicts an arrangement of fruit on a curly maple table that
seems to float on a background of light green concentric rectangles. The 29¾" x 49½"
fireboard sold for $100,000 (est. $60,000/80,000) to an online bidder, underbid on the
phone.
This painted linen overmantel, New York state, circa 1840, is inscribed
“Painted before 1846” along the top in early script. This large (40¼" x 54¼")
theorem painting has stenciled and freehand decoration and a floral border,
and it sold on the phone for $43,750 (est. $12,000/15,000).
James Hope (1818-1892) painted Clarendon Springs, Vermont circa 1853. The oil on
mattress ticking, 26¼" x 36¼", sold on the phone for $87,500 (est. $30,000/50,000),
underbid on the phone. It has an impressive trade provenance that includes Alexander
Acevedo, Peter Tillou, and David Wheatcroft.
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