AMERICAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
Portrait of William Hillegas, 1806
oil on canvas
22 x 26in.
Provenance
H. H. Bellas, Philadelphia
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Pennsylvania Furniture, Including Important Works by Philadelphia Cabinetmakers, American Portraits, Still-Lifes and Landscape Painting ... From the Estate of the Late Arthur J. Sussel, 23-25 October 1958, lot 536
Barbara and Larry Holdridge, Owings Mills, Maryland
Lot Essay
William Hillegas (1780-1830) was the son of Samuel and Mary Milnor Hillegas, and the grandson of the Hon. Michael and Henritetta Boude Hillegas, all of Philadelphia.
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