ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM JENNYS (1744-1859)
ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM JENNYS (1744-1859)

A Pair of Portraits of Captain Josiah Tilden (1760-1849) and Mrs. Susannah Clark Tilden (1779-1844)

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ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM JENNYS (1744-1859)
A Pair of Portraits of Captain Josiah Tilden (1760-1849) and Mrs. Susannah Clark Tilden (1779-1844)
oil on canvas
28 x 22 inches each (2)
Provenance
Descended in the family of sitters
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, November 21, 1980, lot 11

Lot Essay

Josiah Tilden was born in Connecticut and later married Susannah Clark. He enlisted in the Continental Army in 1777, fought at the Battle of Bennington with his father, and continued in the military service until 1781. He retired as a captain with a pension. In Hartford, he was a successful farmer and member of a prominent family that served in the state legislature.

The attribution to William Jennys (working c.1790-1805) is based upon stylistic similarities between these portraits and ones signed by him. Nearly all of his waist-length portraits are painted in an oval spandrel.

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