ID 696246
Lot 342 | CHARLES PEALE POLK (1767-1822)
Estimate value
$ 350 000 – 450 000
GEORGE WASHINGTON AT PRINCETON
recorded as signed and dated on reverse Cs Polk Painter A.D. 1790
oil on canvas
36 x 29 1⁄8 in.
Provenance
Possibly Clement Biddle (1740-1817) or Jonathan Meredith (1740-1811)
Catherine Meredith Biddle (1865-1931) and Sarah Caldwell Biddle (1866-1930) (sisters), Philadelphia, by inheritance from an uncle in the Biddle or Meredith families
Reginald Roberts Jacobs (1892-1969), Buenos Aires, Argentina and Haverford, Pennsylvania
Denholm Muir Jacobs (b. 1922), Massachusetts and Northeast Harbor, Maine, son
Vose Galleries, Boston
Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1971
Ernest Joresco, Chicago
James G. Flannery, Barrington Hills, Illinois
Thence by descent in the family
Literature
John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, The Life Portraits of Washington and Their Replicas (Philadelphia, 1931), p. 135, no. 12.
Tillou Gallery, Inc., advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (January 1971), p. 25.
The Frick Art Reference Library, 121-20-g.
Linda Crocker Simmons, Charles Peale Polk: A Limner and His Likenesses (Washington D.C., 1981), p. 28, no. 16.
Exhibited
Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Charles Peale Polk: A Limner and His Likenesses, 18 July-6 September 1981.
| Artist: | Charles Peale Polk (1767 - 1822) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Artist: | Charles Peale Polk (1767 - 1822) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
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