Lot 153: CHARLES BALTHAZAR JULIEN FEVRET SAINT-MEMIN 1770-1852

PROFILE PORTRAIT OF MR. ROBERT OLIVER, A BALTIMORE MERCHANT

measurements
sight: 21 3/4 by 16 in. including eglomise mat

alternate measurements
55.3 by 40.7 cm.

black and white chalk on pink-tinted paper

Condition Note: a few scattered spots of foxing, probably retaining its original eglomise mat

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PROVENANCE

Mrs. John Tyson
Nicholas Biddle Family, Andalusia

NOTE

There are two versions of this portrait of Mr. Robert Oliver listed in Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Portrait in America, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 365-365, no. 629a and 629b. No. 629b is the present example. Oliver's brother, John, was drawn by Saint-Memin and engraved.