Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection
Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection
Attributed to Jonathan Trego
The Old Homestead
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Auction Closed
January 20, 12:37 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jonathan Trego
1817 - 1901
The Old Homestead
Oil on canvas
Windy Bush Road, Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
circa 1850
12 ½ by 17 in.
Paul and Rita Flack, Solebury, Pennsylvania;
Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Flack, October 27, 2012, lot 307.
The artist's homestead, Trego Farm, was located on Windybush Road in Bucks County near Pineville, Pennsylvania. The Trego family arrived with William Penn and proliferated in Chester as well as Bucks Counties. This particular farm remained in the Trego family from 1736 to approximately 1869 and is where the artist was born. Other works by Trego presently hang in the Bucks County Court House. A similar painting is signed by the artist on reverse My Homestead, painted October 15, 1850, J.K. Trego is in the collection of the Bucks County Historical Society, Mercer Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania (acc. no. 88.13.001).