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ISAAC SHEFFIELD (1807-1845)

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ID 883755
Lot 529 | ISAAC SHEFFIELD (1807-1845)
ISAAC SHEFFIELD (1807-1845)

PORTRAIT OF MARY ANN WHEELER

signed, inscribed and dated Isaac Sheffield/ Pinxt March 1835 (reverse)

oil on panel

30 x 24 1/4 in.

Painted in 1835





Provenance

Marion Clarke, a descendant of the sitter, circa 1963

The Beckwith Jordan family, relatives of the sitter’s family

George Considine Antiques, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire, III, Richmond, Virginia

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 30 April 1981, lot 32

Mr. and Mrs. Max R. Zaitz, Princeton, New Jersey

Christie's, New York, 22 January 2016, lot 200



Literature

Edgar deN. Mayhew, "Isaac Sheffield, Connecticut Limner," The Magazine Antiques (November 1963), p. 589, fig. 1.

Richard Woodward, American Folk Painting: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III (Richmond, Virginia, 1977), p. 73, cat. no. 33.

Richard Woodward, "American Folk Painting, The Wiltshire Collection," The Magazine Antiques (September 1978), p. 563, pl. VIII.

Robert Bishop, Folk Painters of America (New York, 1979), p. 38, pl. 37.

Frick Art Reference Library, no. 123-2 a.



Exhibited

Richmond, Virginia, The Virginia Museum, and travelling, American Folk Painting: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III, 29 November 1977-8 January 1978.

New York, The Museum of American Folk Art, Cross Currents: Faces, Figureheads and Scrimshaw Fancies, 26 June-2 September 1984.
Artist:Isaac Sheffield ( 1798-1845 )
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Genre:Portrait
Category:Painting
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