JAMES SHARPLES (1751/2-1811)

Lot 348
21.01.2022 14:00UTC -05:00
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$ 625 000
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Lot 348 | JAMES SHARPLES (1751/2-1811)
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$ 200 000 – 300 000
JAMES SHARPLES (1751/2-1811)

GEORGE WASHINGTON

reverse with various labels and attachments including a paper label hand-inscribed in ink I give and bequest to my Nephew/ Henry Bowers the Likeness of the/ President George Washington/ Will of Hannah Cushing/ Oct 11th 1833; two newspaper clippings from The Providence Journal, dated 1853; a printed label from the Brooklyn Museum recording loan by Henry Bowers in 1924; together with two letters to Henry Bowers (1781-1861), the first from President John Quincy Adams dated July 27, 1844 and the second from George Washington Parke Custis dated September 26, 1853

pastel on paper

9 1⁄2 x 7 3⁄4 in.







Provenance

Possibly President George Washington (1733-1799), Philadelphia

Hannah Phillips Cushing (1754-1834), Middletown, Connecticut, Scituate, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, by gift from above

Henry Bowers (1781-1861), Somerset and Scituate, Massachusetts and Yonkers, New York, nephew, by bequest

Henry Bowers (1820-1891), Middletown, Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York, son

Henry Bowers (1849-1928), Boston and Brooklyn, New York, son

Janet Bowers Carter (1892-1985), Brooklyn, New York and Englewood, Paramus and Westwood, New Jersey, daughter

Current owner, grandson





Literature

“Original Portrait of Washington,” The Providence Journal, November 30 and December 1, 1853.

James S. Cushing, The Genealogy of the Cushing Family (Montreal, 1905), p. 94.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Chief Justice Cushing Chapter, Old Scituate (Boston, 1921), pp. 50, 53.

David Meschutt, “A Long-Lost Portrait of John Adams and an Unknown Portrait of Abigail Adams by James Sharples,” The American Art Journal, vol. 32, no. 1⁄2 (2001), pp. 89, 91.





Exhibited

Possibly Providence, Rhode Island, The Washington Gallery, 1853.

Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, 1924.
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