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Lot 17
Sale 5190 - Collect: Americana
Sep 21, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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$2,000 -
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$2,772
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Lot Description
Attributed to Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) Portrait of Esther Bowes Cox (1740-1814), 1792-1793
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.