Provenance:

Kennedy Galleries, Inc. 1961 (Catalog accompanies lot);

A private collection.

Note:

On April 13, 1861, after 34 hours of constant bombardment by Confederate artillery, Major Robert Anderson, the commanding Federal officer of Fort Sumter, surrendered to Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard. The incident marked the official beginning ot the Civil War.

George Douglas Brewerton was an artist, journalist and professional soldier. He joined the California Volunteers in 1846. During the early months of the Civil War, Lieutenant Colonel Brewerton was serving as aide -de-camp to Union General Rufus Saxton in South Carolina. The artist published several sketches of war time events in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

Brewerton is known to have completed at least two oil paintings of Fort Sumter. The works, The Bombardment of Fort Sumpter, April 13, 1861 and After The Bombardment of Fort Sumpter were sold in 1938 at Sotheby, Parke, Bernet. In 1863, Brewerton published and patented an early photomechanical print entitled, Sumter April 13, 1861. A copy of this print, a colored glass lantern slide by Theodore J. Harback of Philadelphia, and research binder accompany lot.

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