Portrait of a Woman Holding a Bible, circa 1815

Details

AMMI PHILLIPS (1788-1865)*
Portrait of a Woman Holding a Bible, circa 1815
oil on canvas
32½ x 28in.

Provenance

Fred Fuessenich Antiques, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1961
Barbara and Larry Holdridge, Owings Mills, Maryland

Literature

Barbara and Larry Holdridge, "Ammi Phillips, 1788-1865," Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin (October 1965), #179.
____________, Ammi Phillips, Portrait Painter, 1788-1865 (New York, 1969), catalogue #19, pp. 31 and 45.

Exhibited

New York City, Museum of American Folk Art, "Ammi Phillips, Portrait Painter, 1788-1865," 14 October - 1 December 1968.
Albany, New York, Albany Institute of History and Art, "Ammi Phillips, Portrait Painter, 1788-1865," 9 December 1968 - 7 January 1969.
Hollander and Fertig, et al. Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture (New York, 1994), pp. 49, 77 and plate V.
New York City, Museum of American Folk Art; San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art; and Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, "Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture," 5 February - 17 April; 9 July - 4 September; and 8 October - 31 December 1994.

Special notice

Christie's assume no responsibility for the authenticity of authorship

Lot Essay

The palette and style of this painting are typical of Ammi Phillips' early Border Limner period. The mate to this portrait was first sold at Sotheby's New York, Important American Folk Art and Furniture: The Distinguished Collection of the Late Stewart E. Gregory, 27 January 1979, lot 248. It was subsequently included in Christie's New York, Important American Furniture Folk Art and Decorative Arts, Property from the Collection of the Late Albert K. Davidson, 21 October 1995, lot 34.

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