Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

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Property from a Private Collection, Florida

Edwin D. White

George Washington Reading the Burial Service Over the Body of Braddock

Session begins in

January 24, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Bid

30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Florida

Edwin D. White 

1817 - 1877


George Washington Reading the Burial Service over the Body of Braddock

signed Edwin White and dated N Y 1860 (lower left)

oil on canvas

58 by 46 in.

147.3.5 by 116.8 cm.

Executed in 1860.

William Randolph Hearst, New York

Hammer Galleries, New York

Edward G. Hoban, Cleveland (acquired from the above)

Mr. and Mrs. James O. Keene, Birmingham, Missouri

Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. (acquired as a gift from the above in 1975)

Sotheby’s, New York, 31 January 1985, lot 204 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Henry Tuckerman, Book of the Artists, London, 1867, p. 438

Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works, vol. 2, Boston, 1879, p. 348

Mark E. Thistlethwaite, The Image of George Washington: Studies in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American History Painting, New York, 1979, p. 105