MARY BLOOD MELLEN (1819-1886)

Lot 352
23.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1539494
Lot 352 | MARY BLOOD MELLEN (1819-1886)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
MARY BLOOD MELLEN (1819-1886)
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.
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