JOHN WESLEY PARADISE (1809-1862)

Lot 624
24.01.2025 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 10 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 624 | JOHN WESLEY PARADISE (1809-1862)
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$ 10 000 – 20 000
JOHN WESLEY PARADISE (1809-1862)
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.
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