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- Sale 5204
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| Philadelphia
Apr 30 | 11:00 AM EDT
Live
| Philadelphia
Sale 5204
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
Estimate$4,000 – $6,000
Unsigned, oil on panel, framed; verso bears a printed and hand-written label of “The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully,” hand-inscribed, “Ingersoll Children, J. Kearsley Mitchell/ 227 East Rittenhouse SQ.”
23 in. x 27 7/8 in. (sight)
The portrait depicts Catharine Ann Brinton (1796-1866), aged 12, and John Steinmetz Brinton (1798-1825), aged 10,
(1804-1858), children of Sarah Frederica Salome Steinmetz (1770-1843) and John Hill Brinton (1772-1827), a Philadelphia lawyer and trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. According to The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts catalog, "Catharine married Edward Ingersoll (1790-1841) in 1816, lawyer of Philadelphia, son of Jared and Elizabeth (Petit) Ingersoll. He died in Florence, Italy. Four Children. John Steinmetz Brinton…was graduated from Yale University in 1816 and spent a year at Oxford University; was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1822; married February 26, 1825, Adelaid Gouverneur, of the well-known New York family of that name, and died a few months thereafter."
Presumed descent to sister of sitters, Margaret Yeates Brinton (1843-1908) and husband, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Chapman Mitchell (1840-1900), to son John Kearsley Mitchell (1871-1949), President of Philadelphia Rubber Works.
Property of a Mid-Atlantic Institution.
Scattered relatively light retouch throughout; largest area of retouch to boy's ruffled collar; under UV light most of the work fluoresces the green of old varnish; presently displays a high gloss varnish. In a 20th century frame.
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