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AMERICAN PAINTINGS, FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS FURNITURE & DECORATIVE AMERICAN PAINTINGS, AMERICAN PAINTINGS, FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS APRIL 6, 2016 DOYLE 175 EAST 87TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10128 212-427-2730 DOYLE.COM Wednesday, April 6, 2016 NEW YORK AMERICAN PAINTINGS, FURNTURE & DECORATIVE ARTS AUCTION Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 10am EXHIBITION Saturday, April 2, 10am – 5pm Sunday, April 3, Noon – 5pm ?? ????????? ??????????????????????????????? Monday, April 4, 10am – 6pm Tuesday, April 5, 10am – 2pm LOCATION Doyle New York 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com www.www.Doyle.com/BidLiveDoyleNewYork.com/BidLive Catalogue: $25 AMERICAN PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE INCLUDING PROPERTY CONTENTS FROM THE ESTATES OF Paintings & Sculpture 1-108 Pamela Banker Prints 109-117 Louise Bookstaver Furniture & Decorations 118-169 A Boston Collector Silver & Silver Plate 170-178 Gloria T. Confort Furniture & Decorations 179-211 Raymond Kay Carpets & Rugs 212-233 A New Jersey Collection Leon Oxman Camilla Pinto Susan W. and Charles G. Stachelberg, Jr. Ruth Sternberg Glossary I INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Conditions of Sale II A Private Long Island Collector Terms of Guarantee IV The Metropolitan Museum of Art Information on Sales & Use Tax V A Mid-Atlantic Museum to Buying at Doyle VI Benefit the Acquisitions Fund Selling at Doyle VIII A New England Collection Company Directory IX A New Jersey Collector Auction Schedule XI A Private Collection, New York Catalogue Subscription Form XII The Collection of Sheldon and Marcia Sacks Absentee Bid Form XIII Robert E. Schmidt, New York The Stachelberg Family Collection The Collection of Bridget Sweeney The Tingey House, residence of the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, DC Lot 6 1 2 5 Ammi Phillips Robert Street Attributed to Jacob Eichholtz American, 1788-1865 American, 1796-1865 Portrait of Belle Cohen Portrait of a Gentleman Portrait of Mr. John Conrad, 1832 Inscribed Mrs. Bell [sic] Cohen / Died 1832 Holding a Book: Agriculture Signed By R. Street and dated and signed Eicholtz [sic] in another hand on Oil on canvas 1832 (cl) the reverse 33 5/8 x 28 inches Oil on canvas Oil on canvas C Property of 30 x 25 inches 30 x 25 inches Robert E. Schmidt, New York Provenance: C $2,000-4,000 Gift of Mrs. Margaret Jones, $2,000-3,000 See Illustration 41.110A See Illustration C Property of a Mid-Atlantic Museum to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund $500-700 See Illustration 6 Aaron Draper Shattuck American, 1832-1928 Conway: Autumn Intervale and Mt. Washington, 1859 Inscribed Valley Scene in White Mts / Intervale — Mt Wash. & 5 Mt. Jefferson (Mt. Adams in Clouds at Right) and numbered LF-91 on the reverse; numbered HRM L75.90.44 on an old label affixed to the backing Oil on board, oval 1 10 x 18 inches Provenance: The artist By descent to his daughter, Helen Shattuck Stewart Mrs. Eugene Emigh, New Britain, CT Private collection, NH Thence by descent in the family to the current owner A certificate of provenance from Katharine Stewart Emigh is affixed to the reverse. C Private Collection, New York $5,000-7,000 See Illustration 4 6 3 4 7 Robert Street American School William Mason Brown American, 1796-1865 19th Century American, 1828-1898 Portrait of Mrs. John Conrad, 1832 Portrait of a Lady, thought Autumn Landscape Signed By R. Street and dated possibly to be Mrs. Harrison Gray Signed with the artist’s initials W M B (ll) 1832 (cl) Otis (Sally Foster Otis) Oil on canvas Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 10 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches 30 x 25 inches 30 x 25 inches C Provenance: C $2,500-3,500 Gift of Mrs. Margaret Jones, $800-1,200 See Illustration 41.110A See Illustration C Property of a Mid-Atlantic Museum to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund $500-700 See Illustration 2 7 7 DOYLE • APRIL 6, 2016 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 8 10 William Trost Richards American, 1833-1905 A Reminiscence, 1891 Signed Wm. T. Richards. and dated 91. (lr); inscribed A reminiscence of Corn... on the reverse Watercolor and graphite pencil on board 35 x 25 inches Provenance: Margaret Rogers, Southampton, NY John E. Winters, New York Thence by descent to the current owner C $4,000-6,000 See Illustration 11 Alfred Thompson Bricher American, 1837-1908 Rocky Shore with Sailboats Signed AT Bricher and numbered 33 (lr) Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper laid down on board 10 3/4 x 26 7/8 inches 8 Provenance: Mrs. Alexander Lyle, New York 8 9 Associated Art & Antique Buying Service, William M. Hart William Trost Richards South Orange, NJ American/Scottish, 1823-1894 American, 1833-1905 C Grand Manan I Sea and Rocky Shore, 1874 $2,000-3,000 Signed W Hart (ll) Signed Wm. T. Richards and dated 1874 (lr); See Illustration Oil on canvas numbered R1615 on the reverse; incised Carrig-Rohane 11 x 20 inches Shop, Inc. / R. Con. M. Vose # 19011 on the frame 12 C Watercolor and gouache on paper Alfred Thompson Bricher $2,500-3,500 8 7/8 x 13 1/2 inches American, 1837-1908 See Illustration Provenance: Rural Scene with Footbridge Burke I. and Ruth J. Powers, West Hartford, CT Signed A T Bricher (ll) By descent to the current owner, 2005 Watercolor and gouache on paper laid C down on card $5,000-7,000 7 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches See Illustration C $600-800 10 11 9 9 DOYLE • APRIL 6, 2016 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 10 15 William Preston Phelps American, 1848-1923 Looking South Across Silver Lake toward Mount Monadnock, Elliot’s Ledge, near Nelson Center, New Hampshire, circa 1885 Signed W. P. Phelps (lr); inscribed Looking south across Silver Lake Toward / Mt Monadnock / Location Elliot’s Ledge near Nelson Center N.H. / oil painting by William Preston Phelps / probably painted around 1885 on a label affixed to the reverse Oil on canvas 11 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches C $1,500-2,500 See Illustration 15 16 William Preston Phelps American, 1848-1923 Monadnock, Roxbury, NH Signed W.P. Phelps (lr); inscribed 13 Monadnock – Roxbury NH on the stretcher Oil on canvas 18 x 30 1/8 inches Unframed C $2,500-4,500 17 Charles Ethan Porter 13 John Clinton Ogilvie American, 1847-1923 American, 1838-1900 Lake View Summer Play, 1877 Signed C. E. Porter (lr) Signed Clinton Ogilvie and dated 1877 (ll) Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 20 x 14 inches 23 x 44 inches C Following a visit by Frederic Edwin Church $5,000-7,000 to his studio in September 1879, when the See Illustration older artist purchased some of his works and declared him “to have no superior as a colorist in the United States,” Charles Ethan Porter 14 turned from painting still lifes to landscape. John Ferguson Weir He even planned a sketching trip to the American, 1841-1926 Adirondacks. The present work may date from At Day’s End this period of exploration of a new theme. Signed with conjoined first initials JF Weir (lr) [Frederic Edwin Church as quoted in Hildegard Oil on canvas Cummings, The Paintings of Charles Ethan 21 1/8 x 17 1/8 inches Porter, The Connecticut Gallery, Inc., 1987, p. 62] C C $3,000-5,000 $4,000-6,000 See Illustration See Illustration 14 17 11 DOYLE • APRIL 6, 2016 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 12 21 18 20 21 Joseph Lyman, Jr. Attributed to Russell Smith Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait American, 1843-1913 Madigan House, Wheat Harvest American, 1819-1905 Morning in the Woods Inscribed Madigan House on the stretcher Ducks in a Landscape, 1865 23 Twice signed Jos. Lyman (ll and lr); Oil on canvas Signed A F Tait, inscribed NY. and numbered 13 and inscribed J. Lyman and 8 x 12 1/2 inches dated 65 (lr) ANA on the frame Oil on panel Oil on canvas This charming scene depicts the Madigan 8 x 10 inches house, a modest dwelling adjacent to 23 30 x 40 1/8 inches C Property of a Private George Forster Exhibited: the Castle, the home of Russell Smith in Long Island Collector Abington, PA. During the 1890s he painted American, 1817-1896 New York, National Academy of Design, $2,000-4,000 Still Life with Fruit in a Landscape, 1860 Annual Exhibition, 1877, no. 631 a number of such views of his property. See Illustration We extend our thanks to Dr. Robert Torchia Signed and dated 1860 (ll) C Oil on canvas $2,000-4,000 for his generous assistance in identifying the location of this work and for proposing 22 22 x 27 inches the likely attribution. John Fery C Property from the Stachelberg Family Collection 19 C American/Hungarian, 1859-1934 $20,000-30,000 Julian Walbridge Rix $700-900 Three Quail in a Landscape See Illustration American, 1850-1903 Signed Fery (lr) Landscape Oil on canvas Signed J. Rix (lr), 12 x 16 inches Oil on board, artist’s palette Unframed 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches C Property of a Private Unframed Long Island Collector C Property of a Private $1,500-3,000 Long Island Collector $800-1,200 13 DOYLE • APRIL 6, 2016 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 14 24 Claude (Claudine) Raguet Hirst American, 1855-1942 A Corner of Grandpa’s Study, 1895 Signed Claude Raguet Hirst N.Y.