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Att. to Chester (Charles) Harding (1792 - 1866) Oil on Canvas

Att. to Chester (Charles) Harding (1792 - 1866) Oil on Canvas  A portrait of a young woman, unsigned. Dated verso for 1837.  Dimensions: 32in x 24in, the frame 39in x 33in.    Provenance: Property from a Bucks County, Pennsylvania Collection.

Chester (Charles) Harding

American, 1792-1866 Portrait of Margaret de Peyster Oil on panel 34 x 26 1/2 inches Provenance: Cortland F. Bishop, Lenox, MA, a great-nephew of the sitter. (Framed 39 3/4 x 32 1/4 inches) The panel has been cradled; there is a mended split in the panel with associated inpainting, this restoration runs vertically through the sitter's left arm (viewer's right) and is approximately 14 inches long.

RITCHIE, A.H. (Scottish/American, 1822 – 1895). HARDING, Ch...

RITCHIE, A.H. (Scottish/American, 1822 – 1895). HARDING, Chester (American, 1792 – 1866). Ornate Framed Prints of Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. 19th Century. Each framed 30 ½ x 23”. Sight 25 x 17”. Two prints, each in an ornate wood frame with gilded leaf motif. Portrait of Webster by Harding. Portrait of Clay by Ritchie. Scuffing and light cosmetic wear to frames; prints present cleanly. Not examined outside frame.

CHESTER HARDING, PORTRAIT OF HENRIETTA CLARK, 1849

Chester Harding (American 1792-1866), "Portrait of Henrietta Clark", circa 1849, oil on canvas, three-quarter length portrait of the artist's grandmother seated, apparently unsigned, en verso Museum of Fine Arts, Boston inventory number 30.109 and 'J. Golding/Carver Gilder Frame Maker' to stretcher, 'From/J.J. Adams/Washington St/Boston' stencil marks to canvas, auction label and paper remnant in pocket to protective backing board, framed. Provenance: Acquired Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians (Formerly Northeast Auctions), March 21, 2009, lot 1013; previously in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Approximate dimensions: Canvas h. 30", w. 25"; Overall h. 39", w. 33.75", d. 3.75".

Chester Charles Harding (1792-1866) Oil of Dodge

This is an original Chester (Charles) Harding (1792 – 1866) oil painting of John C. Dodge dated circa 1849 from the Sjaardema Art Collection. Chester Harding was born in 1792, in Conway, Massachusetts, the fourth of 12 children. He married Caroline Woodruff and in 1815, he was forced to leave New York State due to mounting debts. After his family joined him in Pittsburgh around 1818, he was introduced to portraiture by an itinerant artist named Nelson. Largely self-taught, he achieved some success before moving to Kentucky and then felt the influence of Matthew Jouett, a slightly older artist working in the manner of Gilbert Stuart. In the coming years, he painted in Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, and Washington, D.C. During the winter of 1819-1820 he traveled to Philadelphia for two months of study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He received notoriety for his portrait of the 90-year-old Daniel Boone, which was then engraved by several printmakers. In 1823, in Boston he received astounding reception and commissions and later moved to Northampton, Massachusetts in preparation for his anticapited trip to Europe. In London, he worked with artists Charles Robert Leslie and Sir Thomas Lawrence as well as painting for the Royal family. He later sent for his family to join him in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1830, he became an important and visible force in the Boston art world, largely through his ownership of a studio building that was the site of many important exhibitions. Much of each year was spent on the road, executing portraits in New York, Louisiana, Kentucky, and points in between. In all, he is thought to have painted over 1000 portraits. After the death of his wife in 1845, he made a second, nine-month visit to Europe. Thereafter, he painted less, though never giving up his brushes entirely. His interests late in life gravitated toward landscape architecture and fishing. He died in Boston in 1866. The back of the original painting was signed “Portrait of J.C. Dodge for Mabel Dodge Bullis (Picture of Father)”. John C. Dodge was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire in circa 1820, with this portrait painted in the 1840s. He arrived in San Francisco, California in the 1840s. He was a merchant in hardware with his brother Henry Dodge and also worked in real estate. He retired in San Rafael with vacation home in Bolinas, CA. in 1876, and later died in circa 1900. The painting was found and identified as being her father, John C. Dodge, by Chester Charles Harding by Mabel Dodge Bullis (1883-1982) in San Rafael / Bolinas. Mabel Dodge Bullis authored a 1974, book on their family history. John C. Dodge was relative to Henry Dodge (1782-1867) noted American politician and military officer. This painting is an oil on board showing beautiful detail and being well kept. The oil has some crackling and crazing from its very early age, but it doesn’t appear to have much if any loss. There is a very small blemish lower left and a mark at the forehead. The piece is in an original very early rare gold gilt wood frame with a large grandious size and design, being one, if not the best, antique 19th Century frame we have ever offered for sale. The frame is well kept, mostly being in good condition with some slight chipping but overall outstanding in looks and a heavy weight. Provenance: From the Henry and Jean Sjaardema Art Collection. Signature could be behind, frame, but is considered unsigned, identified by original family and confirmed by Sjaardema's expert historic experience. The artwork board measures 19.75” by 15 3/8” and the frame is 33.5” by 29.5”.*

Painting, Chester Harding

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866), Portrait of John Trull, oil on canvas, unsigned, canvas: 17"h x 14"w, overall (with frame): 28"h x 24.5"w

Painting, Chester Harding

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866), Portrait of John Trull, oil on canvas, unsigned, canvas: 17"h x 14"w, overall (with frame): 28"h x 24.5"w

Painting, Chester Harding

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1886), "Portrait of Sarah Minns Tileston," oil on canvas, unsigned, title placard lower center, canvas: 36"h x 28"w, overall (with frame): 49.5"h x 41.5"w

ATTRIBUTED TO CHESTER HARDING (American, 1792-1866). PORTRAIT OF LUCIA GREENOUGH WEBSTER, Portrait of Lucia Greenough Webster, wife of

ATTRIBUTED TO CHESTER HARDING (American, 1792-1866). PORTRAIT OF LUCIA GREENOUGH WEBSTER, Portrait of Lucia Greenough Webster, wife of Ezekiel Webster, brother of Daniel Webster, depicting lady with white lace bonnet and dark ringlets, wearing black dress with lace collar and cuff trim. Oil on canvas, laid down on panel. Unsigned. - 19th century relief-molded, gold leaf frame with floral and shell corner motifs, 30" x 25".

Chester Harding. Portrait of Luther Lawrence, c. 1832.

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866) Portrait of Luther Lawrence, c. 1832. Oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches; within original gilt, carved and molded frame. Luther Lawrence (1778-1839) was born in Groton, Massachusetts, on September 28, 1778, the oldest of four sons sired by Revolutionary patriot Major Samuel Lawrence, all of whom became influential figures in American history. An 1801 graduate of Harvard, Lawrence first embarked on an impressive legal career, working closely with Daniel Webster on important court cases, and then turned to a political career as a member of the Federalist and later, the Whig party. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1812, and became Speaker in 1822. In 1833 he relocated to newly established Lowell to oversee the mill operations of the Lawrence family's Middlesex Mills. In 1838 he was elected the second mayor of that growing city and reelected mayor the following year. His distinguished career was cut short by a tragic accident on April 17, 1839. While showing visitors around one of their mills, he tripped over a rope and fell into a wheel pit, his head hitting the wheel, and he expired shortly thereafter. Chester Harding was born in Conway, Massachusetts, and apprenticed as a turner, but after being introduced to painting by an itinerant, traveling portrait painter, he took up the profession. Relocating to Pittsburgh and later Kentucky during the late 1810s, he painted numerous portraits of the early settlers of the Ohio Valley. He then studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Design and resumed his career in St. Louis, Missouri, before traveling to London in 1823, where he enjoyed success. He established a studio in Boston in 1826, where he worked until 1843, when he returned to England for a few years and then again home to Boston. Harding was one of the most successful American portrait painters of his era, and many important public figures sat for him during his career. In his autobiography, Harding wrote that the "most liberal patronage I have enjoyed as been, perhaps, from the Lawrences. I have painted all of them, and many of their children. My full-length portrait of Amos Lawrence [Luther's younger brother] I consider the best thing I have ever done in my whole artistic career. I have also painted a full-length of Abbott Lawrence." They now hang in the Williams College Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, respectively. This fine portrait of eldest brother Lawrence was painted by Harding about thirteen years prior to the abovementioned full-length portraits of his partner-brothers (both done in 1845) and its careful and sensitive delineation of the sitter and his character of evidence of the affection that the artist held for the sitter and his family.

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866), "Portrait of Mrs. Henrietta McDonnell, nee Tarascon Gilly"

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866) "Portrait of Mrs. Henrietta 'Harriet' McDonnell, nee Tarascon Gilly (1821-1851)", ca. 1842 oil on canvas unsigned. Framed. 24" x 20", framed 31-1/2" x 27-1/2" Provenance: With the McDonnells, thence by descent to their eldest daughter, Cora Ann McDonnell McGraw (1839-1906); to her daughter, Cora McGraw Law (1867-1957); to her niece, Lucille "Lucy" McGraw Collins (1893-1950); to her son Frederick Hunter Collins, Jr. (1921-1967) and his wife Josephine Thomas Collins Watkins (1924-1992); to their son Frederick Hunter Collins III (b. 1949). Exhibited: Cabildo, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, 1942; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky. Washington, D.C., 1985 Literature: Accompanied by select correspondence with the heirs, including two 1942-1943 exhibition letters from the Louisiana State Museum sent to Cora Law; a 1984 letter from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute sent to Josephine Collins confirming the inclusion of the painting in its exhibition catalogue; and a 2003 letter from a conservator to the current owner. Mrs. Thomas Nelson Carter Bruns, Louisiana Portraits, New Orleans, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1975, p. 180; Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky. Washington, D.C., 1985.

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866), "Portrait of John McDonnell"

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866) "Portrait of John McDonnell (1807-1863)", ca. 1842 oil on canvas unsigned. Framed. 27-1/8" x 22-1/8", framed 34-1/8" x 29-1/8" Provenance: With the McDonnells, thence by descent to their eldest daughter, Cora Ann McDonnell McGraw (1839-1906); to her daughter, Cora McGraw Law (1867-1957); to her niece, Lucille "Lucy" McGraw Collins (1893-1950); to her son Frederick Hunter Collins, Jr. (1921-1967) and his wife Josephine Thomas Collins Watkins (1924-1992); to their son Frederick Hunter Collins III (b. 1949). Exhibited: Cabildo, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, 1942; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky. Washington, D.C., 1985. Literature: Accompanied by select correspondence with the heirs, including two 1942-1943 exhibition letters from the Louisiana State Museum sent to Cora Law; a 1984 letter from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute sent to Josephine Collins confirming the inclusion of the painting in its exhibition catalogue; and a 2003 letter from a conservator to the current owner. Mrs. Thomas Nelson Carter Bruns, Louisiana Portraits, New Orleans, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1975, p. 180; Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky. Washington, D.C., 1985. Notes: "I need not extol John McDonnell's catering. He is too well known in that particular to make it at all necessary. From the opening of the old St. Charles Hotel, in New Orleans, his early connection with Pass Christian, the City Hotel, in Natchez, to his present admirable restaurant in Common street (no. 147), he has ever proved himself a most excellent and bountiful provider of everything good to eat and drink." --"Letter from the Lakefront", Special Correspondence, Ocean Springs, Miss., June 8, 1856 As the caption above states, the sitter of this portrait, John McDonnell, was the ultimate hotelier/restauranteur, the consummate host, well regarded for the luxury resorts he established. In 1837 McDonnell married Henrietta Tarascon Gilly (see lot 63) and launched the famous St. Charles Hotel, one of the first great hotels in the United States that preceded the Astor. A. Oakley Hall, later Mayor of New York City, hailed the hotel- "a palace of creature comforts; a college for the study of human nature, and an exchange for money and appetite" on par with an "exchange in London" or a "Palace in St. Petersburg." Both McDonnell's daughters Cora Ann and Alice (1840-1848), pictured in lot 62 with their mother, were born in the hotel, and resided there at the time they sat for their portrait by Harding- a probable guest of the St. Charles. The Carrollton Hotel in New Orleans on the waterfront at the terminus of the St. Charles rail line and the New Brighton Hotel in Pass Christian followed with equal accolades. According to reviews, the former was situated on a four acres garden with a racetrack, at which dinner was prepared nightly after the races. Additional resorts were established along the Gulf and Mississippi River in Ocean Springs and Natchez, and a final restaurant, McDonnells. In 1858 McDonnell was joined by his son-in-law, Cora's husband Morris McGraw, who operated the Pass Christian Hotel. Morris and Cora had eight children. Following the Civil War in which McGraw served as a Private in the 5th Louisiana Infantry, he left the hotel business and established a woodenware business on Gravier Street until his death in 1903. His daughter Cora Law, named after his Mother, had the paintings preserved and exhibited at the Louisiana State Museum. Her niece Lucy McGraw Collins, who inherited the portraits, was a philanthropist; she established the New Orleans chapter of the American Women's Voluntary Services and served on the board of Charity Hospital. The McDonnell portraits and Clendinen portraits in lots 64-65 descended in the same family through the Collins/Thomas marriage when Lucy McGraw Collins' son Frederick Collins II (1921-1967) married Josephine Thomas Collins Watkins (1924-1992). Collins Watkins' maternal grandmother was a Catchings and the great-granddaughter of the Clendinens in lot 64-65. In 1975, she and her daughters are listed as the owners of these portraits by the Colonial Dames' Louisiana Portraits text.

Poster by C. Harding - Collier's Illustrated Weekly

Collier's Illustrated Weekly - 28,5x41, ca. 1900 by C. Harding

Poster by C. Harding - Collier's Illustrated Weekly

Collier's Illustrated Weekly - 28,5x41, ca. 1900 by C. Harding

PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN ATTRIBUTED TO CHESTER HARDING (MASSACHUSETTS, 1792-1866).

PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN ATTRIBUTED TO CHESTER HARDING (MASSACHUSETTS, 1792-1866). Oil on canvas, unsigned. Dressed in black. Edward Dechaux, New York preparer's label on canvas. 30"h. 25"w., framed, 30.5"h. 35.5"w.

Chester Harding (1792-1866)

Artist: Christopher Harding Title: Pair of Portraits  Signature:  Size: Artwork: 30 x 25 Frame: 39 x 34 Created: 1792 - 1866 Medium: Oil on canvas

Chester Harding (1792-1866)

Artist: Chester Harding (Attributed) Title: Pair of Portraits Size: Artwork:  30 x 25 Frame: 39 x 34 Created: 1792-1866 Medium: Oil on canvas

Attributed to Chester Harding (1792-1866), POSSIBLE PORTRAIT OF SENATOR EDWARD BATES, CIRCA 1835, Oil on canvas, sculpted oval, 29" x 23" — 73.7 x 58.4 cm.

ATTRIBUTED TO CHESTER HARDING (1792-1866), AMERICANPOSSIBLE PORTRAIT OF SENATOR EDWARD BATES, CIRCA 1835Oil on canvas, sculpted oval29" x 23" — 73.7 x 58.4 cm.Provenance:Private Collection, TorontoNote:Senator Edward Bates (1793-1869) was an Attorney General in Lincoln’s Cabinet. Prior to that, he was based in St. Louis and was the Attorney General for the State of Missouri. Bates was prominent in State politics from 1822.Chester did portraits of many important US politicians in the period between 1826 and 1860.  Chester Harding spent his winters in St. Louis from 1826 for many years. It makes sense that this portrait was painted in St. Louis and likely around 1835. The portrait appears to be of Edward Bates when he was around 40 years old.Estimate: $2,000—3,000

CHESTER HARDING | Mr. and Mrs. George Hallett (Eliza Gordon): A Pair of Paintings

each, oil on panel

Two Portraits: John Parker and Peter Parker, the portrait of John by Chester Harding (1792-1866), the portrait of Peter by George Peter

Two Portraits: John Parker and Peter Parker, the portrait of John by Chester Harding (1792-1866), the portrait of Peter by George Peter Alexander Healy (Illinois/Massachusetts, 1813-1894), unsigned. oil on canvas, each showing the sitters in black coats, 28 x 24 and 29 x 23 1/2 in., respectively, in molded giltwood frames. Note: John Parker Sr., the father of John (the sitter in the portrait by Chester Harding) and the grandfather of Peter (the sitter in the portrait by George Healy) was a captain of the minutemen at the battle of Lexington in 1775, according to a note affixed to the back of the frame of the portrait of Peter Parker.

Portrait of Chester Harding, 1792- 1866, MA., oil on canvas

Portrait of Chester Harding, 1792- 1866, MA., oil on canvas painting of the artist early in his career presumably by him by but not signed, 30" x 26", appears to be the original yellow painted feame, good untouched condition overall.

PAIR EARLY 19TH C 1/2 LENGTH PORTRAITS BY HARDING

(MASSACHUSETTS ARTIST CHESTER HARDING, 1792-1866), OIL PAINTINGS ON CANVAS. ONE DEPICTS LEWIN WETHERED (1778--1863) AND THE OTHER IS OF HIS WIFE ELIZABETH ELLIOTT WETHERED (MARRIED IN 1805). SIGHT SIZE 30" X 25". THESE ARE INSCRIBED ON BACK IDENTIFYING THE SITTERS AND INSCRIBED PAINTED BY HARDING, BALTIMORE, MD IN 1845. IN ORIGINAL PERIOD CARVED AND GILDED FRAMES. FRAMES SHOW MINOR DAMAGE AND PAINT LOSS. PAINTINGS WERE RELINED AND CLEANED BY W. WHITEREDGE. NO RESTORATION SHOWS UNDER ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT. PROVENANCE: THESE PORTRAITS COME TO US FROM A DIRECT DESCENDENT.

Harding, Marine Painting, O/C

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866), marine painting, oil on canvas, signed "C. Harding" and dated 1828 (on stern of small boat), 25"h x 30"w (view), 30 1/2"h x 35 1/2"w (frame). Provenance: MA Estate.

CHESTER HARDING, (American, 1792-1866), STILL LIFE: MOUNTAIN DEW, ca. 1827; oil on panel;, 15 x 18 in. (20 x 23 in.)

CHESTER HARDING (American, 1792-1866) STILL LIFE: MOUNTAIN DEW ca. 1827; oil on panel; bears various exhibition labels, verso; 15 x 18 in. (20 x 23 in.) Exhibitions: The Boston Athenaeum, 1827; The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., April - September 1985; The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, September - December 1985; "The Apple of America: The Apple in 19th Century American Art", Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, May 6 - June 26, 1993 (label verso). Literature: Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness, Chester Harding and his Portrait, Washington: The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1985, illustrated page 132 (plate 55)

Chester HARDING (1792-1866), Bateaux à l amarrage dans une baie. Huile sur panneau signée en bas à gauche et datée 1830. 25 x 34,5 cm

Chester HARDING (1792-1866), Bateaux à l amarrage dans une baie. Huile sur panneau signée en bas à gauche et datée 1830. 25 x 34,5 cm

Attributed to Chester Harding, (American, 1792-1866), Portrait of a Man

Attributed to Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866) Portrait of a Man oil on canvas 30 x 25 inches.

Attributed to Chester Harding (1792-1866), portrait of mrs. william king (ann nesbeth frazier), 1785-1859, Oil on cradled panel, framed

Attributed to Chester Harding (1792-1866) portrait of mrs. william king (ann nesbeth frazier), 1785-1859 Oil on cradled panel, framed. 31 in. x 25 in. (sight) PROVENANCE: Estate of Virginia H. Knauer, Washington, D.C. Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Public Auction, April 18, 1950, lot 296. Lot is accompanied by bill of sale.

Attributed to Chester Harding, American, 1792-1866, o/c, 30" x 25", Portrait of Daniel Webster, relined

Attributed to Chester Harding, American, 1792-1866, o/c, 30" x 25", Portrait of Daniel Webster, relined. Harding was a well-known portrait painter who painted many important political and social figures of his day. He is known to have painted many portraits of Daniel Webster.

CHESTER HARDING

CHESTER HARDING 1792 - 1866 THE ARTIST'S CHILDREN oil on canvas 33 7/8 by 26 1/2 in. (86.1 by 67.3 cm.)

Chester (Charles) Harding

Chester (Charles) Harding Massachusetts (1792-1866) PORTRAIT OF MRS. KENNEDY, c. 1840 oil on canvas, framed, unsigned H30 1/4" W25" Provenance: Given to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Kellogg Foundation; accession #1967.182. North Carolina collection. Literature: Fern, Alan. A TRUTHFUL LIKENESS: CHESTER HARDING AND HIS PORTRAITS. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1985. Illustrated pp. 161 Other Notes: Inscribed 'Marcia Kennedy (née Gray) Mother of Amelia F. Prentiss Great Grand Mother of Marcia Gray Prentiss --- for Marcia S. Prentiss by her Mother's will' (on an old label verso).

PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN JOHN BINNEY ATTRIBUTED TO CHESTER HARDING (MASSACHUSETTS, 1792-1866).

PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN JOHN BINNEY ATTRIBUTED TO CHESTER HARDING (MASSACHUSETTS, 1792-1866). Oil on canvas, unsigned. Half-length portrait of the stern Boston seaman, who is identified on verso. Imperfections. 30"h. 25"w., in a period gesso and gilt frame, 41"h. 36"w. According to a note affixed to the frame and the verso of the canvas, Captain Binney (1780-1838) was a merchant of Boston and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Additionally, the note indicates that the portrait descended in the Binney family until the 20th century.

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866) Portrait of Alden Bradford Unsigned, identified on labe...

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866) Portrait of Alden Bradford Unsigned, identified on labels from Fogg Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, and Addison Gallery, Philips Andover Academy, affixed to the reverse. Oil on canvas mounted onto panel, 26 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (67.3 x 56.5 cm), framed. Condition: Bowing to support, retouch, varnish inconsistencies, craquelure, pinholes, surface grime.

CHESTER HARDING (AMERICAN 1792-1866). PORTRAIT OF

CHESTER HARDING (AMERICAN 1792-1866). PORTRAIT OF HENRIETTA CLARK, CIRCA 1850. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches.

Attributed to Chester Harding (American/Kentucky,

Attributed to Chester Harding (American/Kentucky, 1792-1866), a pair of portraits of "Mr. Churchill Samuel" and "Mrs. Judith Talbot Samuel", oils on canvas, unsigned, biographical label en verso, 30 in. x 25 in., in matching period frames. Provenance: Descended in the family of the sitters, Tennessee. Note: Born into a political family, Judith Talbot Samuel was the daughter of Kentucky Senator Isham and Margaret Garrard Talbot. Portraits of her grandparents "Kentucky Governor James and Elizabeth Mountjoy Garrard" attributed to Chester Harding with the same provenance sold in these rooms on February 3, 2008. Initially self-taught, Chester Harding studied for two months at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and while living in Kentucky appears to have been influenced by the leading portraitist of the day, Matthew Jouett. From 1818 to 1823 Harding opened a portrait studio in Kentucky, where he earned national attention for his likeness of the frontier hero Daniel Boone. During this time, he evidently painted the engaging pendant portraits of "Mr. And Mrs. Churchill Samuel" and "Governor and Mrs. James Garrard."

Attributed to Chester Harding (American/Kentucky,

Attributed to Chester Harding (American/Kentucky, 1792-1866) , "Mr. Churchill Samuel and his wife Judith Talbot Samuel", oil on canvas, unsigned, biographical label en verso, 30 in. x 25 in., in matching period frames * NO RETURNS ARE ACCEPTED ON THE BAS

After Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866) and

After Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866) and Engraved by Joseph Andrews (American, 1806-1873) and H. W. South (American, fl. ca. 1820-1882) "Portrait of Daniel Webster", engraving, published by Fishl, Adler and Schwartz, New York, third quarter 19th century, presented in a white mat within a gilt-edged matte ebonized wood frame and glazed, overall h. 38", w. 29".

Attributed to Chester Harding (American/Kentucky,

Attributed to Chester Harding (American/Kentucky, 1792-1866), Pendant Portraits of "Kentucky Governor James Gerrard (1749-1822) and his wife Elizabeth Mountjoy Gerrard", both oil on canvas, unsigned, 27 in. x 22 in., in matching gilt period frames. Provenance: Descended through the family of the sitters.

Portrait of Mrs. David Stoddard Greenough III of Roxbury, Massachusetts; and Portrait of Mr. David Stoffard Greenough III of Roxbury, Massachusetts

(Charles) Chester Harding (AMERICAN, 1792-1866) Portrait of Mrs. David Stoddard Greenough III of Roxbury, Massachusetts; and Portrait of Mr. David Stoffard Greenough III of Roxbury, Massachusetts the first signed and inscribed by another hand 'Mrs. David Stoddard Greenough III (Maria Foster Doane, 1793-1843) of Roxbury (Jamica Plane) Mass. By Chester Harding Hamilton P. Greenough, Santa Barbara 1979' (on the stretcher); the second signed and inscribed by another hand 'David Stoddard Greenough 1787 - 1830 of Roxbury, Massby Chester Harding Hamilton Perkins Greenough Santa Barbara 1979' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 36 x 27¾ in. (91.4 x 70.5 cm.) (2)

Portrait of Mrs. David Stoddard Greenough III of Roxbury, Massachusetts; and Portrait of Mr. David Stoffard Greenough III of Roxbury, Massachusetts

(Charles) Chester Harding (AMERICAN, 1792-1866) Portrait of Mrs. David Stoddard Greenough III of Roxbury, Massachusetts; and Portrait of Mr. David Stoffard Greenough III of Roxbury, Massachusetts the first signed and inscribed by another hand 'Mrs. David Stoddard Greenough III (Maria Foster Doane, 1793-1843) of Roxbury (Jamica Plane) Mass. By Chester Harding Hamilton P. Greenough, Santa Barbara 1979' (on the stretcher); the second signed and inscribed by another hand 'David Stoddard Greenough 1787 - 1830 of Roxbury, Massby Chester Harding Hamilton Perkins Greenough Santa Barbara 1979' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 36 x 27¾ in. (91.4 x 70.5 cm.) (2)

Chester Harding (American, 1792-1866) Portrait of President Martin van Buren c.1840 Unsigned, label

from The Brooklyn Museum of Art on the reverse. Oil on canvas. 30 x 25 in. (76 x 63.5 cm), unframed. Condition: Lined, minor scattered retouch (predominately to background). Provenance: From the collection of The Brooklyn Museum of Art.

CHESTER HARDING (American 1792-1866) PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN WITH A WHITE STOCK