Interiors, Featuring Property from the Collection of a Missouri Company

Sale 6307

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Closing from:Jan 17 | 10:00 PM CST

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Lot 183

American School 19th Century, Portrait of a Gentleman Named Frederick Smith

Lot 183

American School 19th Century, Portrait of a Gentleman Named Frederick Smith

Status:

Closed

Estimate: $500 - $700

Estimate$500 – $700

Status

Closed

American School 19th Century, Portrait of a Gentleman Named Frederick Smith

oil on canvas, framed, verso bearing labels identifying sitter and with additional family information.

27 3/4 inches x 22 1/4 inches (sight), 34 1/2 inches x 28 3/4 inches (frame).

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Note:

The labels verso inscribed, "Frederick Smith husband of a Miss Tuck. Father of Annie Smith- he was a lawyer, died of T.B. while Annie was attending Vassar, leaving Vassar due to lack of funds, A. took teachers training, taught in Prince Edward Is. and Bucksport, Maine. Smith ancestors were loyalists and fled to New Brunswick during revolution for safety. Fred Smith's brother-in-law was judge on Supreme bench, New Brunswick."

lined; with some subtle cracquelure commensurate with age; overall with green fluorescence throughout revealed under UV light, indicative of a later applied varnish; with some scattered retouching / inpainting, including upper left edge and background, a few spots to face, to chair back, left side of collar / neck, and to jacket to both sides; frame appears to be period, with some losses along edges

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Sam Cowan is the Associate Vice President, Head of Sale, Interiors
Interiors by Freeman's.

Sam has spent his life in the auction industry, accompanying his father, Wes Cowan to auctions, trade shows and eventually to his own eponymous auction house, in the mid-1990s. He joined his father’s auction house, Cowan’s, full-time in 2012 in the Arms and Armor department and as a fine and decorative arts specialist, a department where he would ultimately become director. Sam has an interest in 20th century design, pottery, early advertising, historic Americana and antique firearms. He is a licensed auctioneer in three states and is a featured appraiser on The Antiques Roadshow.

Interiors, Featuring Property from the Collection of a Missouri Company

American School 19th Century, Portrait of a Gentleman Named Frederick Smith

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