WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790)

Lot 515
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ID 1362374
Lot 515 | WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790)
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$ 10 000 – 20 000
WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790)
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.
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