ID 1362374 
Lot 515  | WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790)
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 20 000 
JONATHAN DEVOTION
together with a handwritten note in ink on reverse of portrait with a biography of Jonathan Devotion, the history of ownership of painting, as well as the history of ownership of portraits of Ebenezer Devotion, Jr. and John Devotion
oil on canvas
17 1/8 x 14 in.
Painted circa 1772.
Provenance
Judge Ebenezer (1740-1829) and Eunice Huntington (1743-1827) Devotion, Scotland, Connecticut, the sitter's parents
Eunice (Devotion) Waldo (1770-1854), daughter
George Waldo (1816-1886), son
Margaret (Waldo) Thomas (1857-1941), daughter
Margaret (Thomas) Bowers (1881-1972), daughter
Paul Bowers (1914-1975), son
Thence by descent in the family
Christie's, New York, 17-18 January 2008, lot 444
Literature
Nina Fletcher Little, 'Winthrop Chandler', Art in America (April 1947), p. 35, no. 2.
Lance Mayer and Gay Myers, eds., The Devotion Family: The Lives and Possessions of Three Generations in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut (New London, 1991), p. 16, fig. 5.
Exhibited
New York, David A. Schorsch Inc., Winthrop Chandler and His Contemporaries, 1989.
Storrs, Connecticut, The William Benton Museum of Art, Connecticut's Quiet Corner Collects, 20 March-21 May, 1989.
New London, Connecticut, The Lyman Allyn Art Museum, The Devotion Family: The Lives and Possessions of Three Generations in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut, 1991.
| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas | 
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| Art style: | Folk Art | 
| Genre: | Portrait | 
| Category: | Services | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas | 
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| Art style: | Folk Art | 
| Genre: | Portrait | 
| Category: | Services | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
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