Lot 288: Attributed to Andrew Bascom

(Massachusetts, active 1833-1860), miniature portrait of Thomas Peck Bucklin (1804-1870), founder of the firm Bucklin and Crane, New York, which owned the clipper ship [Comet] on which he brought back the View of the Bund, at Shangha painting (lot J0287), to the United States, likely between 1851 and 1863, watercolor on ivory, 2-7/8 x 2-1/4 in.; in an embossed red leather traveling case, minor abrasion and grime at edges, not examined out of case; case with wear and fading Provenance: Thomas Peck Bucklin, New York (1804-1870); Edward Carrington Bucklin, his son; Harris Howard Bucklin, his son; Harris Howard Bucklin, Jr., his son; Sotheby's New York, June 23 and 24, 1993, lot 0371; Private Collection