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Beyond a Cincinnati Legacy: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fleischmann III, Part I
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- Sale 1276
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Nov 16 | 10:00 AM EST
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Sale 1276
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Estimate$8,000 – $12,000
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morris, Albany, New York;
to their daughter Caroline Julia Morris Stark (1818-1888), Dunbarton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire;
to her son Charles F. M. Stark (1848-1890), Dunbarton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire;
Main Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois;
thence acquired by the present owners, March 1961.
Literature:
Catalogued as #1227 in Charles Henry Hart, Thomas Sully's Register of Portraits, 1801-1871, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 32, No. 4, 1908.
Exhibited:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, 1897.
American Painting 1740 to 1920, Main Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, March 6-April 3, 1961.
Cincinnati Collects Paintings, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 31-May 15, 1983.
Elizabeth Sarah 'Sally' Kane was born on October 31, 1778, in Dutchess County, New York to John and Sybil Kent Kane. She married lawyer and Congressional representative Thomas Morris on May 28, 1799, in Albany, New York, and the couple had at least twenty children together, primarily residing in Canandaigua for the duration of their marriage. Sally died in Albany on December 17, 1853.
According to Thomas Sully's Register of Portraits, Sully executed this portrait of Sally Kane Morris in 1814 during a visit to New York. It is one of several portraits the Morris family commissioned from Sully, including a portrait of family patriarch Robert Morris, Jr. (1704-1836), Sally's father-in-law, financier of the American Revolution, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution (Painting #1230 in the Register of Portraits).
Framed: 37 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches.
In overall fine and stable condition, with light deposits of dust and grime to surface. Craquelure throughout, with concentration of associated pinprick-sized paint losses at right shoulder area. Two areas of impact crackle visible, one at right cheekbone and the other just above artist's initials. Gap between frame and top edge of canvas, resulting in minor abrasions and losses. Professionally cleaned and conserved by Wiebold Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1982, including varnish removal, void filling with vinyl paste and epoxy, inpainting with acrylate methacrylate (minor spots visible under UV light examination, but harder to discern due to relining process), and revarnishing. Relined after this treatment, but appears to retain original stretchers. Multiple touchups throughout frame.
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Leah Vogelpohl
AVP, Specialist, American Furniture, Folk, and Decorative Arts
Ms. Vogelpohl joined the firm in 2013 as a cataloger in the American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts department. She became a department specialist in 2017, focusing on American decorative arts and silver. She received a BA from the College of Charleston and an MLITT in Art History from the University of Glasgow.
