RALPH EARL (1751-1801)

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Lot 363 | RALPH EARL (1751-1801)
RALPH EARL (1751-1801)

CAPTAIN JABEZ HUNTINGTON (1767-1848)

signed R. Earl Pinxt./ 1796 (lower left)

oil on canvas

48 x 36 in.

reverse of stretcher with hand-written inscription 567/Warner and a label hand-inscribed in ink 567/Warner







Provenance

Possible line of descent in the family: 

Faith Trumbull (Huntington) Hooker (1796-1850), Norwich and South Windsor, Connecticut, daughter of the sitter 

Faith Huntington (Hooker) Montague (1824-1904), Westport, Connecticut and Newton, Massachusetts, daughter 

Elizabeth Hooker (Montague) Claflin (1849-1942), Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, Washington D.C. and Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, daughter 

Marguerite Esther (Claflin) Warner (1891-1931), For Atkinson, Wisconsin and Washington D.C. 

Harold Ellsworth Warner (1888-1958), New York and Washington D.C., husband 

Carleton J. (1910-1981) and Emma Harriet (Bowman) (1917-1996) Phillips, Detroit and Birmingham, Michigan 

Hirschl & Adler, New York 









Literature

[Detroit Institute of Arts], American Decorative Arts from the Pilgrims to the Revolution (Detroit, 1967), no. 125 (as "Portrait of an Officer").

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Twenty-Five American Masterpieces (New York, 1968), no. 3 (as “Portrait of a Captain of the Connecticut Militia”).

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Plain and Fancy: A Survey of American Folk Art (New York, 1970), p. 15, no. 9 (part).

James R. Mellow, “A Retrospective at Hirschl & Adler,” New York Times, November 10, 1973, p. 27.

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, American Folk Art (New York, 1977), p. 21 (referenced).

The Frick Art Reference Library, no. 121-10D.









Exhibited

Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Institute of Arts, American Decorative Arts from the Pilgrims to the Revolution, 1967.
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