Joseph (1708) Badger Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Joseph (1708) Badger Art Value Price Guide

Aug. 20, 2023
ATTRIB Joseph Badger (MA,1708-1765) oil painting antique
Est: $650 - $800
ARTIST: ATTRIBUTED TO Joseph Badger (Massachussetts, 1708 - 1765) TITLE: Portrait of Woman MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Relined. Some small paint losses. Few small scattered inpaintings. Minor craquelure. ART SIZE: 19 x 17 inches / 48 x 43 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: on verso AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 122342 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Joseph Badger was one of that state's earliest native-born artists who became a portrait painter. He first worked as a house painter and glazier and had no formal art training. In 1731, he moved to Boston, and in 1740 began portraiture as a sideline which he learned by copying black and white mezzotint reproductions of the work of English painters. His portraits are three-quarter inch and usually have landscape backgrounds. He had extensive patronage, which was surprising because he was the least sophisticated of the portrait painters of his era. His pictures seem flat, tediously executed and without personality, and many of his wealthy subjects are in austere, puritanical dress. Seventy-five portraits have been identified, and the most attractive seem to be those of children including his grandson. Badger's reputation likely dimmed upon the ascendancy of John Singleton Copley.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
May. 14, 2023
ATTRIB Joseph Badger (MA,1708-1765) oil painting antique
Est: $650 - $800
ARTIST: ATTRIBUTED TO Joseph Badger (Massachussetts, 1708 - 1765) TITLE: Portrait of Woman MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Relined. Some small paint losses. Few small scattered inpaintings. Minor craquelure. ART SIZE: 19 x 17 inches / 48 x 43 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: on verso AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 122342 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Joseph Badger was one of that state's earliest native-born artists who became a portrait painter. He first worked as a house painter and glazier and had no formal art training. In 1731, he moved to Boston, and in 1740 began portraiture as a sideline which he learned by copying black and white mezzotint reproductions of the work of English painters. His portraits are three-quarter inch and usually have landscape backgrounds. He had extensive patronage, which was surprising because he was the least sophisticated of the portrait painters of his era. His pictures seem flat, tediously executed and without personality, and many of his wealthy subjects are in austere, puritanical dress. Seventy-five portraits have been identified, and the most attractive seem to be those of children including his grandson. Badger's reputation likely dimmed upon the ascendancy of John Singleton Copley.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Aug. 19, 2018
JOSEPH BADGER (1708-1765). PORTRAIT OF A DARK-HAIRED WOMAN WEARING A BLUE GOWN WITH A PARROT PERCHED ON HER FINGER, CIRCA 1730-1740.
Est: $2,500 - $4,000
Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches. Unsigned. In what appears to be the original giltwood frame. Provenance: Sotheby's New York, Important Americana, January 17, 1997, lot 1614.
Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians
Jan. 19, 2017
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BADGER (1708-1763) | Portrait of Isaac Jones
Est: $8,000 - $10,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Mar. 11, 2016
att. Joseph Badger (MA, 1708-1765), Pair of Portraits
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
each oil on canvas (lined), unsigned; each sitter, likely brother and sister, are depicted three-quarter length, the young boy with a dog at his side gestures to an expansive landscape beyond, the young girl in blue gown stands before a balustrade with view beyond, holding a open pink rose and blossom in one hand, while plucking others from a bush to her side; each in period frames with gilt filets. Girl - SS 28.5 x 23.5 in.; DOA 37 x 32 in.; Boy - SS 28.5 x 24 in.; DOA 36.5 x 32.25 in.
Leland Little Auctions
Jan. 21, 2016
JOSEPH BADGER 1708 - 1765 | ANDREW SIGOURNEY AND MARY RONCHON
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
Fragment on stretcher of Mr. Andrew Sigourney: Copley, lent by Charles S. Knox 2033.19 loan to Museum of Fine Art, Boston.
Sotheby's
Mar. 22, 2015
JOSEPH BADGER (AMERICAN 1708-1765). PORTRAIT OF DR. JOHN GREENLEAF OF BOSTON.
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
John Greenleaf (1717-1778), a Boston apothecary, married Priscilla Brown of Plymouth in 1743. As the Greenleafs prospered, they commissioned portraits of family members from the city's leading artists of the day, Joseph Badger, John Greenwood and Joseph Blackburn. Badger painted the Greenleafs' young daughters, Priscilla (b. 1746) and Elizabeth (b. 1748) circa 1750. His portrait of Elizabeth is now in the collection of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum at Williamsburg; her mother's portrait by Greenwood is in the collection of Bayou Bend, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. However idyllic the family seemed, the girls and their one-year old brother, John, met a tragic end. All three children were poisoned by their nurse over a period of months in late 1750. Their grieving parents commemorated the children with posthumous high-style portraits painted by John Singleton Copley several years later. Elizabeth's and the baby John's portraits are now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Oil on canvas, 36 x 25 1/2 inches. Provenance: Dr. and Mrs. John Greenleaf, and by descent in the Greenleaf-Appleton family to the present owner.Literature: For a discussion of the murders, see D. Brenton Simons, "Murder by Arsenic: The Ill-Fated Greenleaf Children and their Portraits" in Witches, Rakes and Rogues: True Stories of Scam, Scandal, Murder and Mayhem in Boston, 1630-1775," (Commonwealth, 2005).
Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians
Sep. 23, 2014
Attributed to Joseph Badger (American, 1708-1765) Fine American and European Furniture, Silver, Folk and Decorative Arts and Clocks
Est: -
Portrait of a Child with a bird Verso bears a jelly label inscribed M.F.A. / 1092.15 / Unknown / Martha Custis Washington oil on canvas, laid down on panel 29 1/2 x 22 1/2in (74.9 x 57.1cm)
Bonhams
Mar. 05, 2011
JOSEPH BADGER (AMERICAN 1708-1765). PORTRAIT OF A SHIP MASTER, A MEMBER OF THE PARKER FAMILY, CIRCA 1760.
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
JOSEPH BADGER (AMERICAN 1708-1765). PORTRAIT OF A SHIP MASTER, A MEMBER OF THE PARKER FAMILY, CIRCA 1760. The subject of this portrait may be John Parker (1732-1791), son of Judge William Parker of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and older brother of the Right Reverend Samuel Parker of Trinity Church, Boston. During his youth, John made several voyages as master of a ship and apprenticed as a merchant. Returning to Portsmouth, he was involved in trade and directed a business insuring ship's cargos. In 1771 Parker was appointed Sheriff of the Province and later, Rockingham County by Governor Wentworth, a post he held until 1789 when George Washington appointed him the first U.S. Marshall for New Hampshire. Contemporary accounts describe how Sheriff Parker mounted the balcony of Portsmouth's old Court House to read the first copy of the Declaration of Independence to arrive in New Hampshire.Oil on canvas, 35 x 27 3/4 inches. In period carved and gilded frame. The stretcher with old Museum of Fine Arts label inscribed "Badger, Joseph/ 1349.11/ Lent by Estate of Judge Lathrop." Provenance: Judge John Lathrop (1835-1910) of Dedham, Massachusetts; to his grandnephew George K. Wakefield (1900-1988); and to his descendents. Possible previous descent from Bishop Samuel Parker (1744-1804) of Boston to his wife, Anne Cutler Parker (d. 1844); to their son, Richard Green Parker (d. 1869); to his daughter, Eliza D. Parker Lathrop (d. 1903), to her husband, John Lathrop. Literature: Listed as "Unknown Man" thought to be "some member of the Parker family, to which Samuel Parker, Bishop of Massachusetts, belonged" in Lawrence Park, "Joseph Badger and a Descriptive List of Some of His Works," Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, October 1917-June 1918, Vol. LI, p. 198.
Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians
Jan. 21, 2011
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BADGER 1708 - 1765
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BADGER 1708 - 1765 LITTLE GIRL IN GREEN DRESS HOLDING CHERRIES, A LITTLE BOY IN ROSE-COLORED COSTUME SWINGING A CAT: A PAIR OF PORTRAITS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE THOMAS DICKMAN FAMILY The Bradford family genealogy states: "Moses Bradford's (descendant of William Bradford's, (Governor of the Plymouth Colony) first wife was Ascenath Dickman of Greenfield Massachusetts. Her father, Thomas Dickman, was born in Boston, December 13, 1769 and moved "west" to Springfield about 1792 as a journeyman printer. All that we know of the worldly goods which he brought with him from Boston were these two pictures. The identity of the subjects is unclear but it has always been thought that they were brother and sister of his." The girl's portrait is dated on the back 1767. the girl: oil on canvas; the boy: oil on paper each 25 by 19 1/4 in.
Sotheby's
Aug. 07, 2010
FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY IN PINK DRESS WITH HER DOG AND HOLDING A ROSE, ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BADGER, (BOSTON 1708-1765).
Est: $8,000 - $15,000
FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY IN PINK DRESS WITH HER DOG AND HOLDING A ROSE, ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BADGER, (BOSTON 1708-1765). 39 x 30 inches.
Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians
Jul. 11, 2008
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BADGER (1708-1765, AMERICAN)
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BADGER (1708-1765, AMERICAN) Oil on Canvas Head and Shoulders Portrait of a Lady wearing Period Dress holding a Fish 29" x 25"
Keys Fine Art Auctioneers
Sep. 27, 2007
[ Oil Paintings ]
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
Attributed to Joseph Badger (American, 1708-1765) Portrait of a Lady, wearing a Nosegay of Flowers and Holding a Fish inscribed "Ingleby" on the stretcher oil on canvas 75 x 64cm Provenance: F R Buckley Esq., The Exorcist's House, King's Lynn, Norfolk, and by descent The inclusion of the fish may possibly be a pun on the sitter's name. In King's Lynn near St Nicholas's Chapel is a small cottage known as the Exorcist's House, it is situated at the bottom of Chapel Lane. It was once the home of young Catholic priests as they moved up the career ladder of the church in the 17th Century.
Cheffins
Jan. 19, 2007
JOSEPH BADGER (1708-1765)
Est: $20,000 - $40,000
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTOR PORTRAIT OF A CHILD SEATED ON A MARBLE FLOOR HOLDING A CAT 29 by 23in. (73.7 by 58.4cm) oil on canvas PROVENANCE The John Gordon Collection of American Folk Art, Christie's, New York, January, 1999, Lot 1046 EXHIBITED Lincroft, New Jersey, Monmouth Museum, "Masterpieces of American Folk Art," September 30-November 29, 1975 LITERATURE Sarah B. Sherrill, "Current and Coming," Antiques (September 1975), p. 334 Gordon, Masterpieces of American Folk Art (Lincroft, New Jersey, 1975) NOTE Joseph Badger, the son of Stephen and Mary Kettell Badger, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on March 14, 1707/08. The artist and his wife apparently moved to Boston in 1733, making their home near Brattle Church Square until 1763. It was probably there that Badger's abilities and interests in portrait painting were developed through contact with artists like John Smibert and Peter Pelham, who lived in the same general area, or Thomas Johnston, the early teacher of John Greenwood. Badger seems to have spent his entire career in this area of Boston, moving just two years before his death to a house and lot he purchased on Temple Street. The best of Badger's portraits exhibit both charm and decorative interest, qualities that were important to aspiring eighteenth-century Americans. His use of color and the patterned effect sometimes created by the range and intensity of hues reinforced the visual impact of his work.
Sotheby's
Jan. 18, 2007
JOSEPH BADGER (1708-1765) MID 18TH CENTURY
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
A Pair of Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sigourney oil on canvas 50 x 40 1/4 in.; frame 54 7/8 x 45 in. (2)
Christie's
Jun. 06, 2004
Attributed to Joseph Badger (Boston and Charleston, South Carolina, 1708-1765)
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Portrait of Joseph Goldthwaite (1730-1779), mid-18th century, Boston. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, the stiffly posed sitter wears a brown coat with large buttons in decorative outline against a greenish background, replaced frame is black painted with parcel gilt, sight size 23 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. Condition: Cleaned, relined, craquelure, minor inpainting. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Old Dartmouth Historical Society, proceeds to benefit the acquisition and conservation fund. Note: From 1751-1754 Joseph Badger was the only portrait painter in Boston. Only about 150 of his portraits survive. Major Joseph Goldthwaite was born in Boston, attended Boston Latin School and became an active Loyalist as Commissary and Barrack Master of the royal troops in Boston where he spent the winter of the siege. Subsequently he went with the British Army to Halifax and Quebec.
Skinner
Feb. 28, 2004
OOC
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
OOC- PORTRAIT OF AN ARISTOCRATIC LADY IN GOWN, CA 1750, NEW ENGLAND. ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BADGER (BOSTON, 1708-1765). SHE IS DEPICTED IN A WHITE SILK BODICE WITH JEWELED BUTTONS AND LACE TRIM, PALE BLUE PEIGNOIR WITH LONG LACE CUFFS, HAIR PULLED BACK AND FIVE STRAND PEARL CHOKER HAVING A LARGE DROP PEARL. MOST PROBABLY A WILLIAMSBURG, VA. SUBJECT. FRAME: ORIGINAL MOLDED DARK PANEL, BACKING LINEN, SS: 30" X 25", OS: 36" X 31".
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Oct. 12, 2001
Attributed to JOSEPH BADGER (1708-1763)
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
Portrait of Isaac Jones, circa 1756 oil on canvas 38 3/8x28 5/8in. PROVENANCE Isaac Jones (1738-1812) Dr. Sydney Ponce (son) Dr. Charles S. Goodrich (grandson of Isaac Jones, received from Dr. Ponce, 1835) Benjamin S. Brooks (grandson of Isaac Jones, received from Dr. Goodrich, 1877) Isobel Brooks Dorn (great-granddaughter of Benjamin S. Brooks) Present Owners LITERATURE F. Lanier Graham, Three Centuries of American Painting from the Collection of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, 1971), p. 4, catalogue 4. EXHIBITION San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Three Centuries of American Painting from the Collection of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1971. This painting has been on loan to the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, since 1958. NOTES Isaac Jones was born in New Haven, CT in 1738. A member of the Yale College Class of 1757, this portrait, according to tradition, was painted circa 1756; if true, the portrait may have attended Jones's completion of his studies at Yale. The son of Timothy Jones, also of New Haven, Isaac went on to marry Sibyl Benjamin of Stratford, CT, on 23 January 1774. Isaac and Sibyl Jones had eight children. Isaac Jones died on 18 May 1812, and is buried in the Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT. According to family lore, Jones was a noted Whig during the War for American Independence. When the British, led by General William Tryon raided the Danbury area in late April 1777, the portrait was alleged to have been run through by a British sword. While there is no specific surviving record of Isaac Jones travelling to Boston, Joseph Badger is known to have worked entirely in the Boston area (see Saunders and Miles, American Colonial Portraits, 1700-1776 (Washington, D.C., 1987), p. 191). Nonetheless, the possibility exists that Jones did travel from New Haven to Boston where he might have sat for this portrait. For other similar contemporary portraits by Badger see, Cassius Hunt and Mrs. Cassius Hunt in Shadwell and Strunsky, Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society (New York, 1974), pp. 372-373, figs. 972 and 973. See also, James Bowdoin I in Sadik, Colonial and Federal Portraits at Bowdoin College, (Brunswick, Me., 1966), p. 22.
Christie's