ID 1122172
Lot 455 | AMMI PHILLIPS (1788-1865)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 40 000
PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN, PROBABLY MRS. JENKINS OF ALBANY, NEW YORK
oil on canvas
30 ¼ x 23 ¾ in.
Painted circa 1815
Provenance
J. Stuart Halladay and Herrel George Thomas, Sheffield, Massachusetts
Mrs. Albert N. Petterson
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia (acc. no. 58.100.11)
Northeast Auctions, 27-28 April 1991, lot 613
Private Collection, Connecticut
Christie’s, New York, 21 October 1994, lot 6
Andrew D. Wolfe, Monroe County, Pennsylvania (?)
Sotheby’s, New York, 20 January 2001, lot 119
Acquired from the above sale
Literature
American Provincial Paintings, 1680-1860, from the Collection of J. Stuart Halladay and Herrel George Thomas. April 17 to June 1, 1941 (Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1941), no. 47 as 'Anonymous, Mrs. Jenkins of Albany, about 1800'.
Ruth Piwonka and Roderic H. Blackburn, Ammi Phillips in Columbia County (Kinderhook, The Columbia County Historical Society, 1977), p. 12, no. 9, illustrated.
Beatrix T. Rumford, American Folk Portraits: Paintings and Drawings from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center (Boston, 1981), p. 157, no. 127, illustrated.
David R. Allaway, My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips (2021), vol. 1, p. 121, no. 296, vol. 2, pp. 17, 109 as 'Unidentified Woman aka Mrs. Jenkins (c. 1790-?) of Albany'.
Exhibited
Kinderhook, New York, The Columbia County Historical Society, 15 August - 30 September 1975.
| Artist: | Ammi Phillips (1788 - 1865) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Folk Art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Ammi Phillips (1788 - 1865) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Folk Art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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