Lot 69
  • 69

Alfred Jacob Miller 1810 - 1874

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Alfred Jacob Miller
  • A Bourgeois of the Rocky Mountains
  • inscribed 59., u.l.
  • pen, ink and wash on card

  • 8 3/4 by 10 3/4 in.
  • (22.2 by 27.3 cm)
  • Executed circa 1837.

Provenance

Sir William Drummond Stewart, circa 1839 (acquired directly from the artist)
Francis Nichols Stewart (sale: Chapman's, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 16-17, 1871)
Mr. Bonamy Mansell Power
Edward Power, 1900 (willed from the above)
Major G.H. Power, Great Yarmouth, England (by descent from the above; sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, May 6, 1966, lot 4, illustrated)
Private Collection, California
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1996

Exhibited

Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell, March-May 1972, no. 8, pl. 2
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Lewis & Clark's America: A Voyage of Discovery, July-September 1976
Cody, Wyoming, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, The Mountain Man, May-September 1978, p. 55, pl. 23 (as The Bourgeois Walker and Indian Wife)
Sante Fe, New Mexico, Gerald Peters Gallery; New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist as Explorer - First Views of the American Frontier, September 1999-January 2000, p. 172, pl. 58, illustrated p. 173
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller, September 2008-May 2009, no. 60

Literature

Murthly Castle Estate Sale Notices, (Mr. Chapman's sale advertisement), Scotsman, June 1, 1871, p. 8
"Sale of Pictures from Murthly Castle," Scotsman, June 17, 1871, p. 2
"Sale of Antique Furniture and Tapestry from Murthly Castle," Scotsman, June 19, 1871, p. 2
Ron Tyler, ed., Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, with a Catalogue Raisonné by Karen Dewees Reynolds and William R. Johnston, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982, p. 289, no. 268A