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Property of a Southern Family
THE BERNARD-ROBB FAMILY CLASSICAL PARCEL-GILT PAINT-DECORATED POPLAR AND MAPLE GRECIAN COUCH
AFTER A DESIGN BY BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE (1764-1820); ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN (1777-1851) AND HUGH (1781-1831) FINLAY, BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1815
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THE BERNARD-ROBB FAMILY CLASSICAL PARCEL-GILT PAINT-DECORATED POPLAR AND MAPLE GRECIAN COUCH
AFTER A DESIGN BY BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE (1764-1820); ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN (1777-1851) AND HUGH (1781-1831) FINLAY, BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1815
retains its original caning and casters and some of its original upholstery
33 in. (83.8 cm.) high, 103 ½ in. (262.9 cm.) wide, 23 ¾ in. (60.3 cm.) deep
AFTER A DESIGN BY BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE (1764-1820); ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN (1777-1851) AND HUGH (1781-1831) FINLAY, BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1815
retains its original caning and casters and some of its original upholstery
33 in. (83.8 cm.) high, 103 ½ in. (262.9 cm.) wide, 23 ¾ in. (60.3 cm.) deep
Provenance
Possible line of descent:
John Hipkins Bernard (1792-1858), Gay Mont (later Rose Hill), Port Royal, Virginia
Helen Straun (Bernard) Robb (1836-1901), daughter
Frances Bernard Robb (1867-1950), Helen Straun Robb (1859-1955) and Gay Sevigne Robertson (Robb) Upton (1873-1936), daughters
Frances Bernard Robb (Upton) Poyntz Patton (1911-1981), daughter of Gay, and her husband James S. Patton (1919-2007), by purchase from beneficiaries of above, 1959
Preservation Virginia (Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities), by gift from above, 1975
Present owners, by purchase from above, 2007
John Hipkins Bernard (1792-1858), Gay Mont (later Rose Hill), Port Royal, Virginia
Helen Straun (Bernard) Robb (1836-1901), daughter
Frances Bernard Robb (1867-1950), Helen Straun Robb (1859-1955) and Gay Sevigne Robertson (Robb) Upton (1873-1936), daughters
Frances Bernard Robb (Upton) Poyntz Patton (1911-1981), daughter of Gay, and her husband James S. Patton (1919-2007), by purchase from beneficiaries of above, 1959
Preservation Virginia (Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities), by gift from above, 1975
Present owners, by purchase from above, 2007
Literature
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley and Peggy A. Olley, Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House (Philadelphia, 2016), pp. 123, 150, n. 20 (referenced).
Tara Gleason Chicirda, “The Bowie Brothers of Port Royal, Virginia and the Bernard Family Marble Chess Table,” Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, vols. 42-43 (2020⁄2021), n. 19, n. 28 (referenced).
Lance Humphries, “New Furniture for Emerging Social Refinement: Colonel Thomas Tenant’s Finlay Suite Identified,” American Furniture 2024, edited by Martha H. Willoughby (Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, 2025), p. 155, fig. 35.
Tara Gleason Chicirda, “The Bowie Brothers of Port Royal, Virginia and the Bernard Family Marble Chess Table,” Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, vols. 42-43 (2020⁄2021), n. 19, n. 28 (referenced).
Lance Humphries, “New Furniture for Emerging Social Refinement: Colonel Thomas Tenant’s Finlay Suite Identified,” American Furniture 2024, edited by Martha H. Willoughby (Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, 2025), p. 155, fig. 35.
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