Lot 126: Raimundo de Madrazo y Garretta (SPANISH, 1841-1920)

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garretta (SPANISH, 1841-1920)
Portrait of Mrs Blumenstiel, wearing a white silk dress; and a companion portrait of her husband, Alexander Blumenstiel
each signed and dated '82. Mandrazo' (upper right and lower left)
each oil on canvas
each 36¼ x 28¾ in. (92.1 x 73 cm.)
Each painted in 1882. (2)

This lot is offered without reserve.
Alexander Blumenstiel, who died in 1905 at the age of sixty-two, was a well-known lawyer in New York City. Before he became a lawyer, he was a musical critic and throughout his life he was a patron of the arts.