A Pair of Portraits of Mr. William Shuneman and Mrs. Eliza Demyer Shuneman, circa 1819

Details

Ammi Phillips (1788-1865)
A Pair of Portraits of Mr. William Shuneman and Mrs. Eliza Demyer Shuneman, circa 1819
oil on canvas
30¾ x 25 in. (2)

Provenance

By descent to the present owner

Literature

Barbara C. Holdridge and Lawrence B. Holdridge Ammi Phillips Portrait Painter, 1788-1865 (New York, 1968) cat. 45 and 46, p. 46.

Exhibited

New York, The Museum of American Folk Art, Ammi Phillips Portrait Painter, 1788-1865, 1968-1969, no. 46 and 45.

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Lot Essay

William Shuneman (1766-?) was descended from early New Netherlands settlers. The Son of well-known Reverend and patriot Herman Shuneman (1712-1794) of Utica, New York, he resided in Catskill (Green County), New York. One of his brothers, Martin Gerretsen Shuneman (1764-1827), was elected to the 9th Congress (1805-1807). Like his older brother, William Shuneman was involved in politics as town clerk from 1790-1791 and appointed to Justice of the Peace in Catskill in 1810. The second painting in the present lot depicts his second wife, Eliza Demyer Shuneman (1769-1851) whom he married on September 10th, 1801.

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