Portrait of Edmund Seely

Details

ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH WHITING STOCK (1815-1885), circa 1850
Portrait of Edmund Seely
oil on canvas
44¼ x 38 in.

Provenance

Hirschl and Adler, New York

Literature

Juliette Tomlinson, The Paintings and the Journal of Joseph Whiting Stock (Middletown, CT, 1976) p. 75, pl. II:42.

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Lot Essay

The 1850 census report lists Edward Seely and Catherine Seely in the town of Halfmoon, Saratoga, New York. Their children included a son Edmund Seely (b. 1844), possibly the subject depicted in this portrait.

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