ID 1362406
Lot 624 | JOHN WESLEY PARADISE (1809-1862)
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 20 000
JAMES MONROE
inscribed Mr Monroes addings to the national / convention of France in 1794 (on the scroll); inscribed James Monroe. / Taken December 1830 for Silas E Burrows. / a most perfect likeness to the most accurate / Mr Monroe said that had been taken and / did great merit to the artist / Mr Paradise (on reverse)
oil on canvas
35 ¾ x 27 ¾ in.
Painted in 1830.
Provenance
Silas E. Burrows (1794-1870), New York City, 1830
Judge Robert Craig Stanard (1814-1857) and Mrs. Martha (Pearce) Stanard (1820-1894), Richmond, Virginia, circa 1870
Thence by descent in the family to the current owner
Literature
Clarence Winthrop Bowen, The History of the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as First President of the United States (New York, 1891), pp. 109, 509-510, illustrated.
| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
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| Art style: | Folk Art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Category: | Services |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
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| Art style: | Folk Art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Category: | Services |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 20 Rockefeller Plaza 10020 New York USA | ||||||||||||||
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