Lot 24
  • 24

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

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.