Lot 1163: George R. Hall (b. 1818) after John Whetten Ehninger (1827-1889) Fine American and European Furniture, Silver, Folk and Decorative Arts and Clocks

Washington's First Interview with Mrs. Custis (Afterwards His Wife), 1863 Engraving Published by Pike's New York Opera House Association, 627 Broadway, New York 17 1/8 x 21 7/8 in. (43.5 x 55.5cm)

43.5 x 55.5cm

: Stony Brook, NY, the Museums at Stony Brook; Chadds Ford, PA, the Brandywine River Museum; and Lexington, MA, the Museum of Our National Heritage, February 1999 - February 2000, George Washington: American Symbol, cat. no. C16.

John W. Ehninger was a New York genre and portrait painter, as well as an illustrator. In 1860, three years before he painted this domestic scene of George and Martha Washington, he became a member of the National Academy of Design. George R. Hall was a London-born engraver, who worked in New York. See Mark Thistlewaite, The Image of George Washington: Studies in Mid-Nineteenth Century American History Painting, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1977, p. 235.