Winthrop Chandler Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Winthrop Chandler Art Value Price Guide

Jan. 25, 2025
Winthrop Chandler (1747 - 1790)
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
oil on pine board circa 1777 26 ½ in. by 63 in. housed in a modern grain-painted frame, 29 ¾ in. by 65 ½ in.; together with a transaction record written by Winthrop Chandler on December 25, 1773 and addressed to Dr. John Green of Worcester, Massachusetts. Please note that we have a new registration process and we highly recommend registering early to the sale. If you encounter any difficulty, please contact the Bids Department at bids.newyork@sothebys.com or call +1 (212) 606-7414 for assistance.
Sotheby's
Jan. 24, 2025
WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790). JONATHAN DEVOTION. oil on canvas17 1/8 x 14
Est: $10,000 - $20,000
WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790). JONATHAN DEVOTION. oil on canvas17 1/8 x 14 in..
Christie's
Jan. 19, 2024
WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790)
Est: $100,000 - $150,000
WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790) THE KENDALL TAVERN OVERMANTEL oil on panel 29 x 41 ¼ in.
Christie's
Dec. 17, 2022
Late 18th C Portrait OOB By Winthrop Chandler
Est: $7,000 - $15,000
Late 18th Century Portrait On Board By Winthrop Chandler. (1747-1790 The sitter in this painting is a fine russet haired gentleman wearing a white high necked ruffled shirt that stands out against a dark background. Written on the nameplate: H. March. Has some damage to frame. The painting has been professionally cleaned. Has some craquelure on painting. Signed in lower right hand corner “W. Chandler”. The board medium that artwork is painted on, the make and company “Mill’D Boards George Rowney and Co., Rathbone Place, London, dates this painting towards the end of Chandler’s life and career circa 1780’s.
Tunicks Auction Gallery
Oct. 25, 2021
18th C. oil on canvas, old label stating "Nathaniel Chandler, painted by Winthrop Chandler" (Connecticut, 1747-1790), portrait of ge...
Est: $750 - $1,500
18th C. oil on canvas, old label stating "Nathaniel Chandler, painted by Winthrop Chandler" (Connecticut, 1747-1790), portrait of gentleman with blue vest in rondel, his jacket and vest have pronounced silver buttons, no signature viewed, wear consistent with age, including past repair left of face, relined, and scattered extensive inpainting throughout, etc., ss: 23" h. x 21" w. [Property of the Estate of Warren C. Lane]
Winter Associates, Inc.
Jan. 24, 2020
Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790) A Pair of Portraits of The Reverend and Mrs. Quackenbush oil on canvas 24 x 18 in. (each) (2)
Est: $5,000 - $10,000
Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790) A Pair of Portraits of The Reverend and Mrs. Quackenbush oil on canvas 24 x 18 in. (each) Painted circa 1785
Christie's
Jan. 18, 2019
Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790)
Est: $20,000 - $40,000
Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790) A Pair of Portraits of The Reverend and Mrs. Quackenbush oil on canvas 24 x 18 in. (each) (2)
Christie's
Sep. 24, 2015
Attributed to Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790) An Overmantel Pictur
Est: -
Attributed to Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790) An Overmantel Picture
Christie's
Oct. 20, 2010
After Winthrop Chandler oil painting on canvas,
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
After Winthrop Chandler oil painting on canvas, "The Homestead of General Timothy Ruggles, Hardwick, Massachusetts." Located in the permanent collection of the Worcester Art Museum. Circa 1770-1775. Canvas: 30"H x 60"W; Frame: 36.75"H x 66.5"W. Signed lower right, "Shilling apres Chandler". Winthrop Chandler (American, 1747-1790) Circa - 20th C.
Dallas Auction Gallery
Sep. 30, 2010
WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790)
Est: $40,000 - $100,000
WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790) PORTRAIT OF REVEREND EBENEZER GAY, SR. oil on canvas 37 in. by 28 in. 37 x 28 inches Painted in Suffield, Connecticut, 1773
Sotheby's
Jan. 18, 2008
u - Winthrop Chandler, 1747-1790 , A Landscape with Trees, Red and Yellow Houses on a Lake , Hound pursuing a Red Fox oil on panel
Est: $50,000 - $80,000
Painted circa 1780 oil on panel
Sotheby's
Jan. 17, 2008
A Portrait of Jonathan Devotion
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
WINTHROP CHANDLER (1747-1790), CIRCA 1772 A Portrait of Jonathan Devotion Retains a handwritten note in ink on reverse of portrait with a biography of Jonathan Devotion, the history of ownership of painting, as well as the history of ownership of portraits of Ebenezer Devotion, Jr. and John Devotion. oil on canvas 17 x 14 inches
Christie's
Oct. 04, 2007
u - Winthrop Chandler, 1747-1790 , A Landscape with Trees, Red and Yellow Houses on a Lake , Hound pursuing a Red Fox oil on panel
Est: $100,000 - $200,000
Painted circa 1780 oil on panel
Sotheby's
Oct. 03, 2007
Winthrop Chandler, 1747-1790 , A Landscape with Trees, Red and Yellow Houses on a Lake , Hound pursuing a Red Fox oil on panel
Est: $100,000 - $200,000
Painted circa 1780 oil on panel
Sotheby's
May. 19, 2005
PROPERTY FROM THE AMERICAN FOLK ART COLLECTION OF TONY AND SALLY GRASSI, WILTON, CONNECTICUT
Est: $200,000 - $300,000
PROPERTY FROM THE AMERICAN FOLK ART COLLECTION OF TONY AND SALLY GRASSI, WILTON, CONNECTICUT WINTHROP CHANDLER 1747-1790 VIEW OF A RIVER WITH TREES AND FIGURES oil on pine panel PROVENANCE Henry Grey, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1959 Mr. Hunt Dr. Artemus Bullard Reverend Tuttle Mr. Gordon Wood Frank Parsons Mrs. Bertram K. Little, Brookline, Massachusetts; a sale at Sotheby's October 21, 1994, sale number 6612, lot 739 David A. Schorsch, Woodbury, Connecticut EXHIBITED New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, American Art: 1750-1800 Towards Independence April 3-May 23, 1976 London, England, Victoria and Albert Museum, July 14-September 26, 1976 CATALOGUE NOTE Nina Fletcher Little's: "jelly-label" states: overmantel, panel from parlor Ebenezer Waters house, Sutton, Mass. Painted by Winthrop Chandler, Woodstock, Connecticut before his death in 1790. With his frontal frieze of figures, gaily caparisoned horses and rich, saturated, jewel-like colors, it almost seems as if Winthrop Chandler has serendipitously fused the elegance of the High Renaissance with the charm of the American provincial art. Rich narrative detail introduces us to a cast of eighteenth-century characters including properous, be-wigged gentlemen doffing their tricorn hats in enthusiastic greeting; a carrot-haired wanderer weary and bent under his load and grateful for the physical support of his cane and the moral support of his perky, spotted dog; an exotically attired black servant whose sluggish mount plods along in marked contrast to the inspired horses of the gentlemen; a cloaked, capped, and aproned mother whose duplicate in miniature toddles along side her; and the courting couple permanently locked in a passionate, grasping embrace. Indeed, Mr. Chandler has penned a picture of eighteenth-century life rich with insights into youth and age, flora and fauna, the prosperous and the poor, master and servant, costume and custom. And the cropped figures at either side seem to suggest that the story could unfold and go on and on. Winthrop Chandler painted this overmantle for Ebenezer Waters' home in West Sutton, Massachusetts. Waters was a civil engineer, surveyor, and conveyancer and brother of Samuel Waters whose portrait Chandler painted, along with that of his wife, in 1779. When Mrs. Little first saw this overmantel it was in situ in the southwest parlor enframed over the fireplace in a raised bolection molding. The woodork in this room and the chamber above, which also boasted an overmantel by Chandler, had once been grained and marbleized in shades of brown and yellow and Mrs. Little posed the possibility of Chandler having lent his hand to the whole decorative scheme. In 1837, Ebenezer Waters' widowed daughter, Eunice Waters Bullard, married the celebrated preacher, Henry Ward Beecher, in the southwest parlor, and presumably with the blessings of the blissfully interlocked couple above. The portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Waters and the overmantel from the Ebenezer Waters's southwest chamber are in the collections at Cogswell'a Grant. Exhibition: New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, "American Art: 1750-1800 Towards Independence", April 3 - September 26, 1976, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue by Charles F. Montgomery, pp. 116-117, fig. 57.56; Salem Massachusetts, The Peabody Museum, "Land and Seascape," illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 7, fig. 1; Brunswick, Maine, The Bowdoin College Museum of Art, "The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting," 1964, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue by Marvin S. Sadik, fig. 3 Literature: Little by Little, 1984, ref. p. 91, pp. 83, 86; Nina Fletcher Little, "Recently Discovered Paintings by Winthrop Chandler," Art in America, (April 1948), 81-97, fig. 4, p. 90
Sotheby's