Lot 285: ATTRIBUTED TO ADOLF ULRIC WERTMULLER (1751-1811)

ATTRIBUTED TO ADOLF ULRIC WERTMULLER (1751-1811)
Portrait of a Man, Possibly Samuel Donaldson
oil on wood
30 x 24¾ in.

New York, John Levy Galleries, The Mary H. Sully Collection of American Paintings, 26 November-31 December 1941.
Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art, 7 September-19 October 1975.

Betty Chamberlain, "North Carolina: First State-Initiated Collection, How to Get and Spend A Million Dollars For Art," Art News (April 1956), p. 39.
W.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh, North Carolina, 1956), no. 39.
North Carolina Museum of Art, American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings (Raleigh, North Carolina, 1966), no. 60.
Charlotte Museum of Art, American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (Charlotte, North Carolina, 1975), no. 39.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1983), p. 231.

By descent in the family of the the sitter
Mary H. Sully, Philadelphia
John Levy Galleries, New York, 1941
Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1952
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, by purchase