Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West
Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West
Property from a Private Collection, Florida
George Washington Reading the Burial Service Over the Body of Braddock
Session begins in
January 24, 03:00 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Bid
30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Florida
Edwin D. White
1817 - 1877
George Washington Reading the Burial Service over the Body of Braddock
signed Edwin White and dated N Y 1860 (lower left)
oil on canvas
58 by 46 in.
147.3.5 by 116.8 cm.
Executed in 1860.
William Randolph Hearst, New York
Hammer Galleries, New York
Edward G. Hoban, Cleveland (acquired from the above)
Mr. and Mrs. James O. Keene, Birmingham, Missouri
Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. (acquired as a gift from the above in 1975)
Sotheby’s, New York, 31 January 1985, lot 204 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Henry Tuckerman, Book of the Artists, London, 1867, p. 438
Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works, vol. 2, Boston, 1879, p. 348
Mark E. Thistlethwaite, The Image of George Washington: Studies in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American History Painting, New York, 1979, p. 105
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