MARY BLOOD MELLEN (1819-1886)
23.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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| Event location | United Kingdom, London |
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ID 1539494
Lot 352 | MARY BLOOD MELLEN (1819-1886)
Estimate value
30000USD $ 30 000 – 50 000
Taking in Sails at Sunset
oil on panel
13 ¾ x 17 in. (34.9 x 43.2 cm.)
Provenance
Rebecca Bradford, Massachusetts.
Estate of the above.
Private collection, Massachusetts, by descent from the above.
Vose Galleries, LLC, Boston, Massachusetts.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2003.
Literature
M. Moses, "Check list of all known paintings by or attributed to Mary Mellen," Antiques, vol. CXL, no. 5, November 1991, p. 837, illustrated.
J.A. Craig, Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage through Nineteenth Century America, Charleston, South Carolina, 2006, p. 196n420.
| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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