AMERICAN PAINTINGS, FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS Wednesday, October 5, 2016 NEW YORK AMERICAN PAINTINGS, FURNTURE & DECORATIVE ARTS AUCTION Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 10am EXHIBITION Saturday, October 1, 10am – 5pm Sunday, October 2, Noon – 5pm Monday, October 3, 10am – 5pm Tuesday, October 4, 9am – Noon LOCATION Doyle ?? ????????? ??????????????????????????????? 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 Doyle.com wwwDoyle.com/BidLive.DoyleNewYork.com/BidLive Catalogue: $35 INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATES OF Donald Brenwasser Estate of Patricia M. De Bary Doris Tracy Driscoll CONTENTS Estate of Dorothy J. Henry Paintings 1-113 Estate of Jane Kitselman Prints 114-125 A New York Estate Furniture & Decorations 126-224 A New York State Collection Silver 225-267 Shepherd Raimi Furniture & Decorations 268-310 AMERICAN PAINTINGS & PRINTS Ruth Sternberg Carpets & Rugs 311-336 The Thurston Collection Glossary I Conditions of Sale II INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Terms of Guarantee IV The Arts Students League, New York, to be Sold for the Information on Sales & Use Tax V Benefit of the Institution Buying at Doyle VI The Collection of Dr. William H. Gerdts Selling at Doyle VIII The Heckscher Foundation for Children, to be Sold for the Auction Schedule IX Benefit of the Philanthropic Programs Company Directory X The High Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions Absentee Bid Form XII Elizabeth Mankin, Kent, Connecticut The Metropolitan Museum of Art A Mid-Atlantic Museum to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund Sold to Benefit the Collection of the Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum A New England Collection The Collection of John R. and Anne J. Willis THE THURSTON COLLEctION Doyle is honored to auction property from The Thurston Collection for the benefit of three charitable organizations in North Carolina. This remarkable collection was assembled by Stella Rutledge Thurston (1925-2015), who with her husband, Doc Jones Thurston, Jr. (1908-1993), was a prominent philanthropist in Charlotte, North Carolina. A captain of industry, Mr. Thurston established Thurston Motor Lines, which became a leader in the motor carrier field, and later expanded into aviation. Mrs. Thurston devoted herself to her philanthropic work, her carefully curated collections, and her elegant, gracious homes, where she entertained family and friends with warm Southern hospitality. The Thurston Collection comprises the contents of the Thurston’s home in Charlotte’s historic Eastover neighborhood and their Grandfather Mountain retreat. With a connoisseur’s eye, Mrs. Thurston amassed remarkable collections of important Georgian silver, fine porcelains, European and American paintings, and autograph documents and letters. Property from Mrs. Thurston’s collection comprises 54 lots offered throughout the sale. Proceeds from the sale of The Thurston Collection will benefit Charlotte Latin School, The Thurston Arthritis Research Center at UNC, Chapel Hill, and The Department of Nephrology and Hypertension at Lot 13 UNC, Chapel Hill. Stella Rutledge Thurston and her son, Doc Jones Thurston, III 2 5 Attributed to Orlando Hand Bears William Matthew Prior American, 1811-1851 George Washington Pair of Portraits of Eunice and Reverse painting on glass Henry Harris, New London, CT, 1835 Sight 21 1/2 x 17 5/8 inches The first inscribed Eunice Harris wife C of Henry Harris/ Aged 4... years $400-600 Feb the 4th Day 1835 / Taken by O. H. Bears at the Same time on an 3 old label affixed to the backing After William Russell Birch and Each oil on canvas Thomas Birch Each 34 x 28 inches City and Port of Philadelphia, on the Provenance: River Delaware from Kensington James Davidson, New London, CT Inscribed Great Shackamaxon Treaty Estate of James Davidson, Tree c. 1850 on an old label affixed New London, CT to the reverse Lyman Allyn Museum, Oil on paper laid down on board New London, CT, on loan from 9 x 11 1/2 inches 1933-1935 pending settlement of the above estate, loan The present work depicts the nos. 1933.570 and .571 giant elm tree in an area of Philadelphia John W. Bethell, South Essex, MA known as Shackamaxon (today By descent in the family to the Kensington), where William Penn present owner is believed to have signed his first treaty with the Lenape people Although Orlando Hand Bears is in 1682. It derives from an engraving believed to have worked primarily by the same title from Birch’s Views in Sag Harbor, on the east end of 6 of Philadelphia, an 1800 book of Long Island, several portraits by the prints drawn and engraved by artist of Connecticut residents are William Russell Birch (1755-1844) included in public collections in the and his son Thomas Birch (1779-1851). vicinity of New London and Norwich. 1 It became an iconic image of Little is known of Eunice and Henry 1 Philadelphia. Harris. A Eunice Avery was born in Attributed to Jane Stuart, after Gilbert Stuart C Estate of Patricia M. De Bary Waterford, New London, CT in 1793 George Washington $500-700 and married Henry Harris. Her birth Oil on canvas date appears appropriate to the 30 3/8 x 25 1/4 inches 4 approximate age of Mrs. Harris as C The Thurston Collection American School indicated on the partial label on the $4,000-6,000 6 19th Century reverse of her likeness. Attributed to Charles Willson Peale See Illustration Woman Holding a Young Child C (i) Portrait of Richard Gibbs Oil on canvas $7,000-9,000 Inscribed Richard Gibbs / Grandfather Gibbs / 32 x 26 inches See Illustrations on Mother Sweeney’s Side on the reverse C Oil on canvas, oval $600-800 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (ii) Portrait of Margery Gibbs Inscribed Grandmother Gibbs on the reverse Oil on canvas, oval 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches The present works relate very closely to a pair of portraits depicting Richard and Margery Gibbs, attributed to Charles Willson Peale, that are included in the permanent collection of the Mercer Museum, Doylestown, PA. Those works, also ovals but slightly larger, measure 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches, and are similar in medium, oil on canvas backed by panel. The frames, too, are identical to those on the present works. C $500-700 See Illustrations 7 Emanuel Leutze American, 1816-1868 Bust of a Young Girl, 1839 Signed E. Leutze and dated 1839 (lr) Oil on canvas 20 x 16 3/4 inches C Property from a New York State Collection $2,500-3,500 See Illustration 7 5 6 DOYLE • OCTOBER 5, 2016 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 10 11 8 12 8 9 10 11 12 Gilbert Stuart Literature: Harrison Fisher American School, Manner of American School American, 1755-1828 Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of his Works, American, 1875-1934 19th Century Ferdinand Richardt 19th Century Portrait of Mrs. Luke White and Her Son, circa 1790 with an Account of his Life by John Hill Morgan and an Appreciation Young Woman with a Lace Hat View in the Shawangunk 19th Century Jones Woods, circa 1869 Oil on canvas, oval by Royal Cortissoz, New York, 1926, vol. II, p. 808, no. 904; vol. IV, in Profile Mountains Pedestrian Bridge Bears signature AH Wyant and 30 x 24 5/8 inches p. 569, no. 904, illus.; lists the present work as a replica by Stuart Signed Harrison Fisher (lr); Bears signature T. Cole (lr) Oil on canvas inscribed Jones Woods NY (lr) Provenance: after cat. no. 903, (which is today considered a copy after Stuart) inscribed Harrison Fisher on Oil on canvas 15 x 11 1/8 inches Oil on canvas laid to board By descent in the White family in Ireland Texas Monthly, Aug., 1976, p. 153, listing for Valley House Gallery, the backing in a later hand 15 x 20 inches C 11 1/8 x 15 1/8 inches Scott & Fowles, New York, acquired from Dallas, TX, which appears to have exhibited the present work Watercolor and gouache on C $800-1,200 Provenance: the above, 1920 card, oval $1,000-1,500 See Illustration Jay C. Coe, New York Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1930 This beautiful double portrait depicts Elizabeth de la Mazière, of Dublin, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches See Illustration Acquired from the above, 1985 Mrs. James B. Higgin, New York, acquired who married Luke White in 1781. The identity of the small boy who C C The Thurston Collection from the above tenderly embraces his mother, is uncertain. Tradition held that $800-1,200 $600-800 Wildenstein and Newhouse Gallery, New York, it depicted Mrs. White’s youngest son, Henry, who was created See Illustration by 1932 Baron Annaly in 1863, but the possibility exists that it may instead Leroy Ireland, acquired at auction, circa 1940 depict her second son, Samuel. A portrait described by Lawrence Ernest Closuit, Fort Worth, Tx, acquired from Park (no. 903, p. 569, vol. II) as the original from which Stuart painted the above, 1944 the present work, presently in the permanent collection of the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, Toledo Museum of Art, is now believed to be a copy. It appears acquired from the above, 1959 that the location of the original double portrait is unknown. Morton A. Kornreich, Harrison, NY, by circa 1980 C $20,000-40,000 See Illustration 8 DOYLE • OCTOBER 5, 2016 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 9 13 Jasper Francis Cropsey American, 1823-1900 Autumn Landscape, 1879 Signed JF Cropsey and dated 1879 (ll) Oil on canvas 12 x 20 inches Provenance: Newhouse Galleries, New York, inv. no. 17323 In an email dated August 17, 2016, Dr.