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Three Graces with Large Canary

Offered by: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques

Description
Three Graces with Large Canary
American School, probably New England.
Unsigned, ca. 1830-1850.
Oil and watercolor on Bristol artist board, (stamped l.l.)
14” x 17 ½”, 18 ½” x 23” (with frame).
Excellent condition, vibrant colors, minor toning. In a period lemon-gilt frame.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Donald Moylan.
This yet unidentiﬁed artist has eight known works, to include this example, Three Graces with Canary which are all considered as “memorial pictures”. The location of three: The New Bedford Memorial, in the permanent collection of the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, ex-collection, Jean Lipman; an untitled memorial held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, ex-collection Maxim Karolik (56.438); Woman and Children under a Canopy with Flags, given by Mrs. Frederick Thurston Mason in memory of her sister, Anna Phillips Stevenson to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania in 1914 (1914-365); the New Hampshire Memorial, purportedly discovered in Chocorua, New Hampshire and now owned privately in Boston; and the Boston Memorial, the whereabouts of which are currently unknown, likely housed in a private collection.
For illustrations of two of the works mentioned above, please see M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors & Drawings, 1800-1875, Volume II (Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1962), p. 199, cat. no., 1200, ﬁg. 296, and Jean Lipman, Primitive American Painting (New York City, New York: Oxford University Press, 1942), plate 31.

Item ID: WoA-WoP-WC 117

More Information

Origin:	United States
Period:	19th Century
Materials:	Oil and watercolor on board
Condition:	Good.
Creation Date:	ca. 1840
Styles / Movements:	Folk Art, Color
Dealer Reference #:	WoA-WoP-WC 117
Incollect Reference #:	746992

Dimensions

W.	23 in;	H.	18.5 in;
W.	58.42 cm;	H.	46.99 cm;

Message from Seller:

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