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AMERICAN PAINTINGS, FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS Wednesday, April 18, 2018 NEW YORK AMERICAN PAINTINGS, FURNTURE & DECORATIVE ARTS AUCTION Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 10am EXHIBITION Saturday, April 14, 10am – 5pm Sunday, April 15, Noon – 5pm Monday, April 16, 10am – 6pm LOCATION Doyle 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com Catalogue: $35 INCLUDING PROPERTY CONTENTS FROM THE ESTATES OF Paintings 1-93 Albert Bruce Connor Prints 94-99 Doris Frank Furniture & Decorations 100-160 Leo Hershkowitz Silver 161-207 Eleanor Johnson Howard Kaminsky PROPERTY FROM THE RHINELANDER STEWART FAMILY Eve G. Kingsland Silver & Silver Plate 208-226 Betty Wright Landreth Furniture & Decorations 227-242 Peter K. and Kathleen B. Leisure Furniture & Decorations 243-306 A Long Island Estate Carpets & Rugs 307-328 Barbara Hartley Lord A New York Estate A New York Private Estate Glossary I Estate of Elinor Steinhart Conditions of Sale II Stephen Stempler Information on Sales & Use Tax III The James P. and Joan M. Warburg Collection Terms of Guarantee IV James H. Wickersham Jr. Buying at Doyle V Selling at Doyle VIII Auction Schedule IX Company Directory X INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Absentee Bid Form XII A Manhattan Lady A Mid-Atlantic Museum to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund A New York Collector A New York Corporate Collection A New York Museum A Private Collector The Rhinelander Stewart Family AMERICAN ART Lot 27 4 Manner of Joseph Whiting Stock Young Girl in Red Dress Oil on canvas 30 x 25 inches Provenance: [Sale] Brunk Auction, Asheville, NC, Nov.4, 2006, lot 571 C $1,000-2,000 See Illustration 1 2 4 1 5 Thomas Bludget de Valdenuit Attributed to Joseph Whiting Stock American/French, 1763-1846 Rogers himself served as a governor Boy in a Blue Dress with His Dog, Portrait of a Young Man, Believed to of New York Hospital and was a circa 1840s be Benjamin Woolsey Rogers, founder of the Bloomingdale Asylum Oil on canvas in Profile for the Insane. 30 x 25 inches Signed Vald, dated 1797 (ll), Provenance: An engraving of Rogers by inscribed illegibly (ur), and dated Smith College Museum of Art Saint-Mémin dated 1796 may 1797 on the reverse Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut possibly relate to the present work. Chalk on pink prepared paper [Sale] Bonham’s September 23, 2014, C 19 x 14 inches lot 1189 $1,200-1,800 Literature: Born in France, Thomas Bludget de See Illustration Juliette Tomlinson, ed., The Paintings and Valdenuit came to America in the the Journal of Joseph Whiting Stock, together aftermath of the French Revolution, 2 with a checklist of his works compiled by joining forces with his fellow countryman, Attributed to Rembrandt Peale Kate Steinway, Wesleyan University Press, Charles Balthazar Julien Févret American, 1778-1860 Middletown, CT, 1976, p. 72, no. 17 and de Saint-Mémin to create profile Portrait of a Gentleman (traditionally plate II:17 portraits with a physiognotrace. believed to depict Hilary Baker), Peter Tillou, Where Liberty Dwells: Invented in France in 1783-84, circa 1805 19th-Century Art by the American the device was designed to Oil on canvas People, Works of Art from the Collection mechanically trace a sitter’s portrait 26 1/2 x 22 inches of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tillou, in profile. The partners offered a Provenance: Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1976, package deal: a silhouette portrait Berry-Hill Galleries, New York no. 62 executed in black chalk on pink C C Property from a Beekman Place Apartment toned paper, a small engraved $2,500-3,500 $4,000-6,000 metal plate, and a dozen engravings. See Illustration See Illustration In their partnership, Valdenuit drew the initial likeness, and Saint-Mémin produced the plate and prints. 3 Attributed to Spoilun The business arrangement ended (Guan Zuolin) in September 1797 when Valdenuit returned to France. Portrait of Nathaniel Bowditch Oil on canvas mounted on Masonite 23 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches 3 The present work is believed to Provenance: depict Benjamin Woolsey Rogers Berry-Hill Galleries, New York (1765-1859), part of a prosperous C New York family that made a substantial $4,000-6,000 5 fortune from the importation of See Illustration hardware. 6 DOYLE • APRIL 18, 2018 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 6 8 Augustus Saint-Gaudens Robert Walter Weir American, 1848-1907 American, 1803-1889 Portrait Medallion of The Fountain of Cicero, 1829 Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887-88 Signed Robt W. Weir and dated 1829. (lr) Signed Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Oil on canvas dated MDCCCLXXXVII and inscribed 14 1/8 x 22 inches To Robert Louis Stevenson, Provenance: along with Stevenson’s poem Gouverneur Kemble, Cold Spring, New York “To Will H. Low” from Underwoods; Mark Lurie, Indianapolis, IN, until 1972 also inscribed under the figure Berry-Hill Galleries, New York Copyright by Augustus Saint-Gaudens Campbell Weir, great-grandson of the artist Bronze with dark brown patina, Berry-Hill Gallery, New York possibly in the original frame Exhibited: Diameter 17 3/4 inches Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Provenance: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition, 1830, no. 105 Berry-Hill Galleries, New York Lawrence, KS, University of Kansas Museum of Art, The Arcadian Landscape: Nineteenth Century American In 1877 Saint-Gaudens shared a Painters in Italy, Nov. 4 - Dec. 3, 1972, no. 43 studio in Paris with Will Hickock West Point, NY, Cadet Fine Arts Forum of the Low, a close friend of Stevenson’s, U. S. Corps of Cadets, Robert Weir: Artist and although he and the author did not Teacher of West Point, 1976, no. 83 meet at that time. Later they met in 8 Literature: New York, where Stevenson, who was The Arcadian Landscape: Nineteenth Century gravely ill with tuberculosis, posed American Painters in Italy, Lawrence, KS, for Saint-Gaudens, sitting up in bed University of Kansas, 1972, n.p. illus. n.p reading. The sculptor created three Robert Weir: Artist and Teacher of West Point, versions of the portrait, which were West Point, NY, Cadet Fine Arts Forum of cast in varous sizes. This is the second the U. S. Corps of Cadets, 1976 pp. 42, 81 illus. version, which eliminates the foot of Brigitte Bailey, “Cole and the Italian Landscape”, the bed and the lower quarter of the essay in American Iconology, New Haven, author’s body. Yale University Press, 1933, pp. 103-104 illus. C Betsy Fahlman, John Ferguson Weir: The Labor $10,000-15,000 of Art, Newark, DE, The University of Delaware Press, See Illustration 1997, pp. 22-23 illus. C 7 $2,000-4,000 Titian Ramsay Peale See Illustration American, 1799-1885 Looking Through a Grotto to a Bay, drawn while on the Wilkes Expedition 9 to the South Seas, circa 1840 Bass Otis Ink on paper American, 1784-1861 4 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches Dido and Aeneas on the Quay at Carthage, 1850 6 Provenance: Signed Painted by B. Otis and dated April 1850 (lr) Jacqueline Hoffmire (a Peale Oil on canvas descendant) 43 x 58 1/2 inches Miss Ida Edelson, Germantown, PA Unframed Private Collection, CT Provenance: Exhibited: Berry-Hill Galleries, New York Philadelphia, PA, Frank Schwarz & Son, C $4,000-6,000 A Gallery Collects Peales, May 1 - Jun. 27, 1987 See Illustration 9 Together with James Peale American, 1749-1831 10 Landscape with a Bridge Elihu Vedder Ink on paper American, 1836-1923 4 1/8 x 7 7/8 inches Italian Landscape Unframed Signed Vedder (ll); signed Vedder and inscribed Minerva Provenance: Medica as it was during the changes when making the Ida Edelson, Germantown, PA new quarter on the reverse Private collection, CT Oil on canvas laid to stretched canvas C 7 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches $800-1,200 Provenance: Berry-Hill Galleries, New York See Illustration of Part The structure depicted, thought to be the Temple of Minerva Medica, is actually a 4th century A. D. nymphaeum, or monumental fountain that was a part of the Horti Liciniani complex on the Esquiline Hill. The misnomer dates to the discovery of the Minerva Guistiniani excavated in the 17th century, though it is disputed that the famous work was even found at this site. The structure’s dome collapsed in 1828. The present work is a charming example of Vedder’s 7 Italian landscapes. C 10 $2,000-3,000 See Illustration 8 DOYLE • APRIL 18, 2018 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 9 12 George Inness American, 1825-1894 A Valley Within Mountains, circa 1875 Bears signature G. Inness (lr) Oil on paper laid to board 9 5/16 x 13 1/8 inches Provenance: Mrs. Elizabeth Inness, wife of the artist Rufus T. Bush, Brooklyn, NY Wendell T. Bush and Mary Louise Bush, New York, by inheritance Anna Plummer Hoagland (Mrs. Hudson Hoagland), Southborough, MA, by gift from her adopted father, Wendell T. Bush Hudson Hoagland, Southborough, MA, by inheritance Joan Hoagland Humphrey, Northport, NY By descent to the current owner, 1984 In a letter dated February 14, 2018, Dr. Michael Quick writes, “Your painting, which I shall title A Valley Within Mountains,... bears the signature added by the Inness estate.... The landscape has the appearance of a field sketch, painted on the spot, recording the shape of the valley and the facing ridge and mountain ranges. It was painted rapidly 12 and with great skill and assurance over a tan underpainting, which the artist in numerous places has allowed to stand as a middle value. The terrain corresponds most closely with that of North Conway, New Hampshire, where Inness painted during the summer of 1875.