JOSHUA JOHNSON (C.1763-AFTER 1824)

Lot 417
19.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 100 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1122060
Lot 417 | JOSHUA JOHNSON (C.1763-AFTER 1824)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 200 000
JOSHUA JOHNSON (C.1763-AFTER 1824)

MRS. MARTHA (HALL) DORSEY AND MARY ANN DORSEY

oil on canvas

26 x 25 in.

Painted circa 1804-05





Provenance

Joshua Dorsey (1776-1852) and Martha (Hall) Dorsey (1777-before 1830), one of the sitters

Possible early descent:

Harriet (Dorsey) Hammond (1797-1862), niece of above

Margaret Dorsey (Hammond) Mullikin (1828-1906), daughter

Known descent:

Margaret Hammond (Mullikin) Hammond (1859-1943), daughter

Harriet Dorsey Hammond (1878-1969) and her sister Eleanor Pratt Hammond (1875-1958), sisters-in-law

Wardlaw McGill Hammond, Jr. (1919-1997), nephew

Mary Love L’heureux Hammond (1933-2020), wife

David L’heureux Hammond and James Thomas Stevenson Hammond, sons



Literature

National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Delaware, Portraits in Delaware, 1750-1850; a check list (Wilmington, 1951), p. 25 as 'Mrs. Joshua Dorsey and daughter Louise of Baltimore'.

Carolyn J. Weekley, Stiles Tuttle Colwill et al., Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter (Williamsburg, VA and Baltimore, 1987), p. 122, no. 27, as 'Mrs Joshua Dorsey (Martha Hall) and Mary Ann Dorsey', illustrated.
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