Portrait of Mary Hoyt, circa 1836

Details

AMMI PHILLIPS (1788-1865)*
Portrait of Mary Hoyt, circa 1836
oil on canvas
33½ x 28in.

Provenance

R. Hatfield Ellsworth, Dealer, Salisbury, Connecticut Antiques Show, 1959
Barbara and Larry Holdridge, Owings Mills, Maryland

Literature

Barbara and Larry Holdridge, "Ammi Phillips, 1788-1865," Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin (October 1965), #78.
____________, Ammi Phillips, Portrait Painter, 1788-1865 (New York, 1969), catalogue #190, pp. 34 and 50.
Hollander and Fertig, et al., Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture (New York, 1994), p. 68.

Exhibited

New York City, Museum of American Folk Art; Albany, New York, Albany Institute of History and Art, "Ammi Phillips, Portrait Painter, 1788-1865," 14 October - 1 December 1968; 9 December 1968 - 7 January 1969.

Special notice

Christie's assume no responsibility for the authenticity of authorship

Lot Essay

While the name Mary Hoyt is scratched into a lower part of the strainer and may be a later addition, a reliable source in Kingston, New York in 1959 supported the identification of the sitter as Mary Hoyt. A companion or second family portrait also done by Phillips at approximately the same time was reported to have been in the Hoyt family home in Newburgh, New York.

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