Ira Chaffee Goodell Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Ira Chaffee Goodell Art Value Price Guide

Sep. 14, 2018
PAIR OF PORTRAITS BY IRA CHAFFEE GOODELL (NEW YORK, 1800-1877).
Est: $2,000 - $3,500
PAIR OF PORTRAITS BY IRA CHAFFEE GOODELL (NEW YORK, 1800-1877). Oil on wood panel, unsigned. Husband and wife ca. 1830s. Some restoration. 27.5"h. 22.5"w., later frames, 31"h. 26"w. Authenticated by Michael R. Payne and pictured in the upcoming book Romanticism and American Folk Portraiture: The Writings of Ira Chaffee Goodell (1800-1877). Michael R. Payne and Suzanne Rudnick Payne. See also the article by the same authors “In His Own Words The Discovered Writings of Ira Chaffee Goodell (1800-1877) - A Nineteenth-Century American Folk Portrait Painter", Antiques and Fine Art, pp. 152-159.
Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers
Aug. 03, 2014
IRA CHAFEE GOODELL (AMERICAN 1800-1875). PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN FANCY WHITE HEADDRESS AND LACE COLLAR.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Oil on panel, 30 x 23 inches. The attribution to Goodell was confirmed by Ruth Piwonka of the Columbia County Historical Society, New York, in 1999.Provenance: Northeast Auctions, August 7-8, 1999, lot 695.
Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians
Mar. 23, 2014
IRA CHAFFEE GOODELL (AMERICAN 1800-1877). PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, 1829.
Est: $1,600 - $2,400
Oil on wood panel with breadboard ends, 25 3/4 x 23 inches. Signed and dated on the reverse "July 19, 1829/ I.C. Goodell." Also inscribed in pencil "John Eldridge." Family tradition holds that the sitter was a sea captain.Literature: According to research by Mike and Suzy Payne for a forthcoming book on the artist, Goodell's account book indicates he was in the area of Westfield, Massachusetts in July 1829.
Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians
Sep. 25, 2013
Attributed to Ira C. Goodell, (1800-circa 1875 mi
Est: -
Attributed to Ira C. Goodell, (1800-circa 1875 mid-19th century Portrait of a boy with a dog and a Whip
Bonhams
Nov. 19, 2012
Ira Chaffee Goodell American, 1800-1875 Portrait of Master Angelo Newton Franklin Goodell, 1849
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Ira Chaffee Goodell American, 1800-1875 Portrait of Master Angelo Newton Franklin Goodell, 1849 Inscribed Extract from the Declaration/of Independence in Phonography/Written at the Apollo Rooms in/N. York, Thursday Evening May/1849. By/A.N.F. Goodell./Aged 6 years and 8 months. (ul), inscribed "Now I suppose my name will/appear in the papers tomorrow."/Yes, Master Angelo Newton/Franklin Goodell, it shall."/I.C. Leland., signed Painted by I. C. Goodell. and dated June 1849. (ll); inscribed ...Angelo Newton Franklin Goodell/Painted by L.C. Goodell/June 1849/53...St./N. York on the reverse Oil on canvas 43 1/2 x 33 inches Exhibited: Kinderhook, NY, Columbia County Historical Society, Painted by Ira C. Goodell, 1979 Literature: Ruth Piwonka, Painted by Ira C. Goodell, Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, NY, 1979, exhi. cat., no. 44 Trained as a lawyer, Ira Chafee Goodell also studied painting, and pursued both activities professionally for several years, working in various communities in Massachusetts and New York State in the Albany/Hudson region. In 1834 he moved to New York City, where he spent the remainder of his life painting portraits, and as late as 1874, still charging the same fee of $10 per portrait that he had charged forty years prior. Suzanne and Michael Payne, authors of an upcoming article about the artist, write, "Ira Goodell was always very interested in the latest intellectual fad. His letters describe his fascination with mesmerism, galvanic batteries that were said to treat every disease... spiritualism, phrenology, etc. In 1849, Ira and his young son Angelo,. started practicing the new 'phonography,' an early type of shorthand. In May, 1849, they attended a meeting of the New York State Phonological Association where Angelo, at six years of age, got up and wrote the Declaration of Independence on the blackboard, from memory." After the event was reported in several newspapers, Goodell commemorated the event in two very similar portraits of his son, one of which is the present work. A precocious six year old Angelo Goodell wrote to his cousin, Harriet on June 12, 1849, describing the event, "I am fitting my self for a reporter as fast as I can conveniently. I have been to 3 or 4 Phonographic Exhibitions of the New York City Phonographic Society Mr. T.F. Leland President. I went onto the stage and showed the audience how a little boy of 6 years of age could write Phonography on the black board. The Spectators patted their hands stamped their feet and made a terrible noise when I wrote the Declaration of Independence, -- from memory as fast as most people read it. Did you not see an account of it in the papers as several of the new york papers told a notice of the performance. and saing [sic] that I did first rate for a little person.'' This lot will be accompanied by a letter from Suzanne and Michael Payne, to whom we extend our thanks for their generosity in sharing archival materials for the purposes of this catalogue. C
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Jan. 20, 2012
IRA CHAFFEE GOODELL (1800-1875)
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
IRA CHAFFEE GOODELL (1800-1875) A Pair of Portraits of Dr. Marks and Lewis Marks oil on canvas 39 x 35 in. each (2)
Christie's
Jan. 21, 2011
IRA CHAFFEE GOODELL (1800-1875)
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
IRA CHAFFEE GOODELL (1800-1875) A Pair of Portraits of Dr. Marks and Lewis Marks oil on canvas 39 x 35 in. (2)
Christie's
Aug. 15, 2010
Ira Chaffee Goodell (Massachusetts, 1800-1875) Portraits of Nathan and Freelove Drury. The artist's misspelled name, "I. C. Goodale,..
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Ira Chaffee Goodell (Massachusetts, 1800-1875) Portraits of Nathan and Freelove Drury. The artist's misspelled name, "I. C. Goodale," is inscribed four times in pencil on the reverse of the woman's portrait, also inscribed "No. 30." Oil on wood panel, c. 1835, 23 3/4 x 21 3/8 in., with wood strips on the top and bottom of the panels applied to mitered wood supports. Condition: Retouch, cleaned. Note: Ira Chafee Goodell was a self-taught itinerant painter from Belchertown, Massachusetts, who also painted portraits in Dana, Massachusetts, and in several locations in Columbia County, New York, before moving to New York City about 1834. More than fifty-three portraits are signed or attributed to Goodell, more than twenty of those of prominent residents of Columbia County. Literature: See Vital records of Deerfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, compiled by Thomas W. Baldwin, Boston, Massachusetts, 1920, p. 237. Freelove Sweet married Nathan Drury of Shelburn on September 12, 1795.
Skinner
Aug. 12, 2008
Attributed to Ira Chaffee Goodell (Massachusetts, 1800-1875) Pair of Portraits of a Man and a Woman.P...
Est: $700 - $900
Attributed to Ira Chaffee Goodell (Massachusetts, 1800-1875) Pair of Portraits of a Man and a Woman. Unsigned. Oil on panel, 28 x 23 in., in contemporary grain-painted frames. Condition: Both panels cracked and repaired.
Skinner
Jun. 18, 2008
Attributed to Ira Chaffee Goodell (Massachusetts, 1800-1875) Pair of Portraits of a Man and a Woman.P...
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Attributed to Ira Chaffee Goodell (Massachusetts, 1800-1875) Pair of Portraits of a Man and a Woman. Unsigned. Oil on panel, 28 x 23 in., in contemporary grain-painted frames. Condition: Both panels cracked and repaired.
Skinner
Nov. 29, 2007
Attributed to Ira Chaffee Goodell (Massachusetts, 1800-1875) Pair of Portraits of a Man and a Woman. Unsigned. Oil on panel, 28 x 23 in
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Attributed to Ira Chaffee Goodell (Massachusetts, 1800-1875) Pair of Portraits of a Man and a Woman. Unsigned. Oil on panel, 28 x 23 in., in contemporary grain-painted frames. Condition: Both panels cracked and repaired.
Skinner
Jun. 24, 2007
ATTRIBUTED TO IRA CHAFFEE GOODELL (American, 1800-1875). PORTRAIT OF A MAN IN A BLACK CRAVAT, oil on board.
Est: $800 - $1,200
ATTRIBUTED TO IRA CHAFFEE GOODELL (American, 1800-1875). PORTRAIT OF A MAN IN A BLACK CRAVAT, oil on board - 28 1/2 in. x 24 1/4 in.
Sloans & Kenyon