John Wesley Jarvis

Lot 286: ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN WESLEY JARVIS (d. 1839)

Name: ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN WESLEY JARVIS (d. 1839)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 46d082c1fd

Est: $5,000 USD - $7,000 USD

Christie'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 20, 2012

Item Overview

Description

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN WESLEY JARVIS (d. 1839)
Portrait of a Man: Traditionally Identified as John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in.

Artist or Maker

John Wesley Jarvis

Exhibited

New York, John Levy Galleries, The Mary H. Sully Collection of American Paintings, 26 November-31 December 1941.

Literature

W.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh, North Carolina, 1956), no. 21.
North Carolina Museum of Art, American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings (Raleigh, North Carolina, 1967), no. 33.

Provenance

Mrs. Hughes, Mobile, Alabama
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

Auction Details

Important American Furniture and Folk Art

Christie's

January 20, 2012, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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