Lot 5156
  • 5156

Thomas Chambers (1808-1869)

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Thomas Chambers
  • Capture of H.B.M Frigate Macedonian by the U.S.S. United States on October 25, 1812
  • oil on canvas
  • 21 1/2 by 30 1/4 in.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, January 21, 2006, sale 8158, lot 326.

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808-1869, September 27-December 28, 2008;
Glens Falls, New York, The Hyde Collection, Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808-1869, February 8-April 19, 2009;
New York, American Folk Art Museum, Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808-1869, September 29, 2009-March 7, 2010;
Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Museum of Art, Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808-1869, March 26-May 30, 2010.

Literature

Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo, "Beyond Tradition: A Folk Art Collection in New Hampshire," Antiques & Fine Art, vol. VII, issue 2, Summer/Autumn 2006, pp. 136-137;
Kathleen A. Foster, Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808-1869, (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art: 2008), p. 40, fig. 2-18.

Condition

Lined, craquelure, scattered inpainting (mostly at the margins and around the USS United States). Antique gilt frame: 25 1/2 by 34 inches.
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