Master Paintings and Drawings

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Property from the New-York Historical Society

Louis François Gérard van der Puyl

Thomas Payne (1719-1799), half-length

Lot Closed

October 22, 03:19 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the New-York Historical Society

Louis François Gérard van der Puyl

Utrecht 1750 – 1824

Thomas Payne (1719-1799), half-length


indistinctly signed lower left

oil on canvas

canvas: 29½ by 23½ in.; 74.9 by 59.7 cm.

framed: 36 by 29½ in.; 91.4 by 74.9 cm.

J.T. Payne, great-grandson of the sitter;
From whom acquired by Frederick Startridge Ellis (1830 - 1901);
By whom given to the New-York Historical Society, 1883 (1883.1).
H. Abbott, Catalogue of the Museum and Gallery of Art of the New-York Historical Society, New York 1885, p. 79.

ENGRAVED:

T. F. Dibdin, in The Bibliographical Decameron: Or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse Upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected With Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography, printed by W. Bulmer and Co., London 1817, vol. 3, p. 435.