Lot Essay
Executed circa 1844-45.
Mr. and Mrs. Erasmus Darwin Sappington: A pair of portraits
Details
George Caleb Bingham* (1811-1879)
Mr. and Mrs. Erasmus Darwin Sappington: A pair of portraits
oil on canvas
one, 29½ x 24in. (75 x 61cm.), the other, 30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm.) (2)
Mr. and Mrs. Erasmus Darwin Sappington: A pair of portraits
oil on canvas
one, 29½ x 24in. (75 x 61cm.), the other, 30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm.) (2)
Provenance
By descent in the family of the sitters
Lucian Mortimer (Nelson) Skov, Portland, Oregon
By descent in the family of the above
Lucian Mortimer (Nelson) Skov, Portland, Oregon
By descent in the family of the above
Literature
E.M. Bloch, George Caleb Bingham, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, 1967, vol. II, cat. nos. 124, 125