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- Sale 5190
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Sale 5190
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Estimate$2,000 – $4,000
Oil on canvas, relined, framed.
25 in. x 20 1/2 in. (sight)Provenance
Formerly in the collection of descendants of the sitter, Mr. & Mrs. John Lloyd, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Note
According to Charles Coleman Sellers, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, supplement (1969), p. 129, text pg. 57-58, this portrait is a copy of the life portrait of Mrs. Cox that was a pendant to the portrait of her husband, John Cox, painted in 1792. The copy was made by Peale the following year. A portrait miniature by Charles Willson Peale of Esther Bowes Cox is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
According to Charles Coleman Sellers, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, supplement (1969), p. 129, text pg. 57-58, this portrait is a copy of the life portrait of Mrs. Cox that was a pendant to the portrait of her husband, John Cox, painted in 1792. The copy was made by Peale the following year. A portrait miniature by Charles Willson Peale of Esther Bowes Cox is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Formerly in the collection of descendants of the sitter, Mr. & Mrs. John Lloyd, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
