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Portrait of a Man, The Agriculturist, circa 1840
Details
AMMI PHILLIPS (1788-1865)*
Portrait of a Man, The Agriculturist, circa 1840
oil on canvas
32 x 27in.
Portrait of a Man, The Agriculturist, circa 1840
oil on canvas
32 x 27in.
Provenance
New York City, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New England, Philadelphia and New York Cabinetwork from the Collection of John J. Gunther, 21-22 October 1960, lot 333
Barbara and Larry Holdridge, Owings Mills, Maryland
Barbara and Larry Holdridge, Owings Mills, Maryland
Literature
Barbara and Larry Holdridge, "Ammi Phillips: Limner Extraordinary," Antiques (December 1961), pp. 558 - 563, fig. 5.
____________, "Ammi Phillips, 1788-1865," Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin (October 1965), #164.
____________, Ammi Phillips, Portrait Painter, 1788-1865 (New York, 1969), catalogue #163, pp. 49.
____________, "Ammi Phillips, 1788-1865," Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin (October 1965), #164.
____________, Ammi Phillips, Portrait Painter, 1788-1865 (New York, 1969), catalogue #163, pp. 49.
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