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Property from a South Carolina Collection

RALPH EARL | PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM HENRY CAPERS OF ST. HELENA, SOUTH CAROLINA

Auction Closed

January 26, 08:38 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

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RALPH EARL

(1751 - 1801)

PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM HENRY CAPERS OF ST. HELENA, SOUTH CAROLINA


oil on canvas

1788

36 ¼ by 30 in.

signed above the sitter's knee Earl Pinxt 1788, the letter in the sitter's hand inscribed Willm H. Capers Greenwich Connecticut.

William Henry Capers of the parish of St. Helena, South Carolina, married Abigail Burr, sister of General Gershom Burr, both of whom Earl painted in 1789.