AMMI PHILLIPS (1788-1865)*

Portrait of Sarah Morgan Walbridge

Details

AMMI PHILLIPS (1788-1865)*
Portrait of Sarah Morgan Walbridge
oil on canvas
32½ x 26¼in.

Provenance

Mrs. Theodora Morgan Palmer, Plattsburgh, New York, niece of sitter Plattsburgh Public Library, Plattsburgh, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 26, 27, January 1984, lot 329

Exhibited

State University of New York, Plattsburgh, New York, 1976.
Munson-Williams Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, New York.
Albany Institute of History and Art, North Country Folk Art Exhibition, Albany, New York, February- July, 1982, no. 105.

Lot Essay

Sarah Morgan (1787-1824), the daughter of Ensign Jonas Morgan and Sara Mott of Preston, Connecticut, was born in Lansingburgh, New York where Ammi Phillips worked between 1815 and 1822. She was married in 1805 to lawyer Ebeneger W. Walbridge and had four children.

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