Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints

Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints

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PROPERTY FROM THE WOLF FAMILY COLLECTION

John Quincy Adams Ward

A Portrait Relief of Elizabeth Ward Thomas

No reserve

Lot Closed

January 20, 06:18 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

John Quincy Adams Ward

1830 - 1910

Portrait Relief of Elizabeth Ward Thomas


inscribed JQAWard1853 (lower edge)

marble

22 x 20 in.

55.9 x 50.8 cm.

Executed in 1853.

Mrs. Oliver Ship (granddaughter of the sitter, acquired by descent)

Glenn Opitz, Apollo Antiques, Poughkeepsie, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above on 30 September 1977 by the present owner

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Quincy Adams Ward: Dean of American Sculpture, 1985, no. 3, p. 139, illustrated