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George Howorth
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- George Howorth
- Alexander Hamilton
- oil on canvas
- 31 by 25 1/8 inches
- (78.7 by 63.8 cm)
- Painted circa 1853.
Provenance
Mercantile Library Association of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1853 (commissioned from the artist)
(probably) Macbeth Galleries, New York
Stephen C. Clark, Sr., New York
Gift to the present owner from the above
(probably) Macbeth Galleries, New York
Stephen C. Clark, Sr., New York
Gift to the present owner from the above
Exhibited
Princeton, New Jersey, Morven Museum & Garden, Princeton: A Capitol Place, 2008-2009
Catalogue Note
As indicated on a plaque affixed to the frame, the present work was commissioned by the Mercantile Library Association of Boston on the recommendation of Edward Everett. Howorth modeled this portrait after John Trumbull’s likeness of Alexander Hamilton, a version of which is in the White House collection of fine arts.