Sale 6427
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
Estimate$3,000 – $5,000
Provenance:
By descent in the Wister family of Germantown, Philadelphia. The recorded ownership begins with Dr. James Wilson Wister (1874-1955) and Elizabeth Bayard Dunn Wister (1875-1971), thence to their daughter, Suzanne Wister Fuguet Eastwick (1906-1990), to the present owner. A typed note on verso of painting records that the portrait was originally from historic Grumblethorpe in Germantown.
Exhibition History:
This piece was purportedly included in the April, 1932 Exhibition of Washingtoniana in The Collection of the Colonial Dames.
Cleaned and vanished, 1928, Hannah Mee Horner, Philadelphia
Accompanied by coservation report of October 24, 1975 Joseph Amarotico, Philadelphia.
Replaced stretchers.
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