AMERICAN PAINTINGS, FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS Wednesday, October 4, 2017 NEW YORK AMERICAN PAINTINGS, FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS AUCTION Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 10am EXHIBITION Saturday, September 30, 10am – 5pm Sunday, October 1, Noon – 5pm Monday, October 2, 10am – 6pm LOCATION Doyle New York 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com Catalogue: $35 INCLUDING PROPERTY CONTENTS FROM THE ESTATES OF Paintings 1-117 Barbara Anspach Prints 118-128 Patricia S. Bradshaw Furniture & Decorations 129-176A Charles Austin Buck Silver & Silver Plate 177-213 An East Hampton Estate Property of a New York Private Collector 214-255 Anne H. and John K. Howat Furniture & Decorations 256-288 Eleanor Johnson Carpets & Rugs 289-311 The Collection of Willa Kim and William Pène du Bois George Labalme, Jr. A Manhattan Lady A New York and Connecticut Estate A New York Estate A New York Lady A New York Private Estate Glossary I Helen Olson Conditions of Sale II Harry Oppenheimer Terms of Guarantee IV Yousseff Rizkallah Information on Sales & Use Tax V The James P. and Joan M. Warburg Collection Buying at Doyle VI Selling at Doyle VIII Auction Schedule IX Company Directory X Absentee Bid Form XII INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Formerly in the Inventory of Berry-Hill Galleries, New York A Connecticut Collector The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, sold for the benefit of the Bard Graduate Center A Mid-Atlantic Museum to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund A New York City Private Collector A New York Collector A New York Museum A Pennsylvania Collection A Private Minneapolis Collection A Prominent New York Family The Collection of Bennett and Judie Weinstock AMERICAN PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE Lot 45 1 3 4 5 1 3 4 6 American School John Johnston Thomas Sully Rembrandt Peale 19th Century American , 1752-1818 American, 1783-1872 American, 1778-1860 Portrait of a Seated Child in a Red Dress Portrait of Mrs. Nathaniel Gardner Portrait of Maria Todd Miss Charlotte A. Pratt, 1836 Oil on canvas (Mary Ann Lewis), circa 1790 Oil on canvas Inscribed on a label on the 26 x 22 inches Oil on canvas 29 1/4 x 24 inches stretcher Portrait of Charlotte C 30 1/4 x 25 1/8 inches C A. Pratt / Daughter of John $800-1,200 Provenance: $4,000-6,000 and Mary Pratt / of Harris’ Folly See Illustration Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Gardner, See Illustration High Street Boston Groton, MA Oil on canvas 2 Frank Bulkely Smith, Worcester, MA, 5 36 x 29 inches Kenneth Southworth Davies until 1920 Thomas Sully Exhibited: American, b. 1925 Sale, American Art Association, American, 1783-1872 New York, Whitney Museum Martha Washington, 1951 New York, Apr. 22-23, 1920, no. 144 Head of a Woman of American Art, 18th and 19th Signed Ken Davies and dated 51 on Albert Duveen, New York Signed T. Sully above Century American Paintings the vertical edge (ur); titled on a label Victor Spark, New York shoulder (cr) from Private Collections, on the stretcher; inscribed at the rear at Horace Graham Graphite pencil on paper laid Jun. 12 - Sep. 11, 1972 the lower edge Nov. 16th New Yorker Berry-Hill Galleries, New York to blue paper This lot is accompanied by a Oil on canvas Literature: 6 1/2 x 6 inches love poem to the sitter written 11 x 8 inches Illustrated Catalogue of the C Property from the by Rembrandt Peale, signed Provenance: Remarkable and Widely Known Collection of Mr. and with his initials and dated Robert Weimann, Ansonia, CT Collection of Early American and British Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, Sept. 1835. Jeffrey Brown, Lincoln, MA Portraits, Landscapes and Historical sold for the benefit of C Property of a Harry D. Cohen, Port Washington, NY Pictures Formed by the Connoisseur. the Bard Graduate Center New York City Private Collector The Late Frank Bulkely Smith. New $1,500-2,500 $5,000-7,000 The artist has indicated that he had York: The American Art Association, See Illustration executed a painting in a similar format 1920, n.p., no. 144, illus. See Illustration depicting George Washington, but is “Paintings Sold at Auction,” American unaware of the current location of Art Annual, 1920. vol. 17, p. 295 that work. American Portraits Found in C Massachusetts, W.P.A., 1939, vol. 1, $2,500-3,500 nos. 841-42 See Illustration Bruce Weber, American Paintings and Sculpture VIII 1999, Berry-Hill Galleries, 2 Inc., New York, 1999, p. 10, illus. 6 C $3,000-5,000 See Illustration 6 DOYLE • OCTOBER 4, 2017 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 10 7 7 9 10 William Matthew Prior John F. Francis Attributed to George Caleb Bingham American, 1806-1873 American, 1808-1886 Portrait of a Gentleman Wearing a Portrait of Otis Kimball and Portrait of Portrait of Mary Orr Atwood, 1845 Flowered Waistcoat and Portrait of a Margaret Kimball, 1838 Inscribed Jno (?) H. Francis/pinxit, dated Lady Wearing a Black Dress with a Lace Each inscribed on the reverse, the first: 1845, and inscribed Chil...he on the Collar: Two Mr. Otis Kimball A. 30/Painted from reverse of an old relining canvas Oil on canvas Nature by Wm Prior/1838; the second Oil on canvas 30 x 25 inches Mrs. Margaret Kimball/aged 26 years 30 x 25 inches Provenance: 1838/Painted by W.M. Prior in Bath/ Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York February 28 1838 Ellen Orr Atwood, Chillecothe, OH The Altmayer Collection, Mobile AL Each oil on canvas Her granddaughter, Mary Smith Berry-Hill Galleries, New York Each 34 x 28 inches Henderson, by inheritance Exhibited: Provenance: Her son, Elyot Henderson, New York and Hollywood, FL, Art and Culture Center Berry-Hill Galleries, New York Cape Nedick, ME, by inheritance of Hollywood American Portraits, Sep. 10- C His widow, Sydney Henderson, Oct. 20, 1978, nos. 13 and 12 respectively, $5,000-7,000 by inheritance illus. See Illustration [With] F. O. Bailey Antiquarians, Portland, C ME, 1993 $1,200-1,800 8 Literature: See Illustration 11 Alfred Frankenstein, “J. F. Francis,” 8 Robert Street American, 1796-1865 Antiques, May 1951, vol. 49, pp. 374-77, 11 Portrait of John Baker of Philadelphia, 390, 393. American School 1838 19th Century In 1845, John F. Francis was living in Signed R Street and dated 1838 (lr) Philemon Halstead Frost and Charlotte Chillecothe, Ohio, where he advertised Oil on canvas Halstead Frost: Two, circa 1840 his services as a portrait painter in 30 1/8 x 20 inches Each oil on canvas, framed with an The Scotio Gazette. The Francis family Provenance: arched top bible records that both of his children, John Baker, Philadelphia Each 36 x 29 1/8 inches Joseph Raphael and Mary Elizabeth (born John Lewis Baker, Philadelphia, C Property of a New York Museum in 1833 and 1834, respectively) were by inheritance $700-900 baptised in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Josephine Baker (Mrs. John Drew), See Illustration in Chillecothe in 1845. Philadelphia, by inheritance Louise Drew (Mrs. John Devereaux), The present work is the only example 12 Philadelphia, by inheritance from Francis’s Chillecothe period to have After John Wesley Jarvis John Drew Devereaux been identified. It includes a vase of 19th/20th Century Berry-Hill Galleries, New York flowers at right which presages the next Portrait of DeWitt Clinton Exhibited: phase of the artist’s career as a painter of Oil on canvas Hollywood, FL, Art and Culture Center of still life. 35 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches Hollywood, American Portraits, C C Property of a New York Museum Sep. 10-Oct. 20, 1978, no. 8, illus. $1,000-1,500 $500-700 C See Illustration See Illustration $800-1,200 9 See Illustration 12 8 DOYLE • OCTOBER 4, 2017 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 9 15 part 13 14 16 part 14 15 16 John Frederick Kensett (i) William Trost Richards (i) Jervis McEntee American, 1816-1872 American, 1833-1905 American, 1828-1891 Tree Study, Franconia Notch, 1850 Hills and Valley, Possibly a View of the Dry Brook Inscribed Franconia Notch Oct. 20th 50 (lr) White Mountains, with a Quick Study Dated Aug. 7 1888 and titled (lr) Graphite pencil on buff paper laid to of a House Graphite pencil heightened with white 13 light card Graphite pencil on gray paper on paper John Frederick Kensett 13 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches 9 1/4 x 12 3/8 inches 14 x 10 3/4 inches American, 1816-1872 Provenance: Provenance: Provenance: Seascape with Figures (Seascape), 1861 The artist Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York Signed with conjoined initials JFK and dated ‘61 (lr); titled on labels affixed to the Vincent Colyer, acquired from the above Peridot-Washburn Gallery, New York (ii) Johann Hermann Carmiencke back of the frame and stretcher His daughter Louise Colyer, by inheritance (ii) Henry Farrer American/Danish, 1810-1867 Oil on canvas Her husband Edward F. Weed, American, 1843-1903 Niagara 6 3/8 x 10 inches by inheritance Tree Inscribed Niagara Oct. 16th 1857 (ll) Provenance: Anonymous collection Graphite pencil on paper laid to a Graphite pencil and white gouache Paul Magriel, New York Babcock Galleries, New York, acquired second sheet on paper Kennedy Galleries, New York from the above, 1973 9 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches 10 3/4 x 15 5/8 inches John K. Howat, New York John K. Howat, New York, acquired from Provenance: (iii) Aaron Draper Shattuck This painting will be included in the forthcoming John F.