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John Frederick Kensett

Winter Sports

Auction Closed

January 19, 07:25 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

John Frederick Kensett

1816 - 1872

Winter Sports


signed with initials JFK and dated 1848 (lower left)

oil on canvas

18 by 24 in.

45.7 by 61 cm.

Executed in 1848.

American Art-Union (acquired directly from the artist in 1849)

Z. C. Ladd, Boston (acquired from the above in 1849)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc., New York

Acquired from the above in 1964 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum (and traveling), John Frederick Kensett: An American Master, March 1985 - January 1986, fig. 29, p. 61, illustrated

Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art-Union, Exhibition Records 1816-1852, New York 1953, no. 99, p. 213

New York, New York, American Art-Union, October - December 1849, no. 99