$18,000
Thomas Sully (American, 1783-1872) Portrait of Ellen Shepherd Brooks (Mrs. Gorham Brooks) Monogrammed and dated "TS.1831." c.r., identified on a loan label from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm), framed. Condition: Canvas mounted to cradled Masonite panel, minor retouch, fine stable craquelure, scattered scuffs to background, surface accretions. Literature: Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872) (Philadelphia: Wickersham Press, 1921), entry #203, p. 107. Provenance: By descent within the family of the sitter. N.B. Ellen Brooks's father, R.D. Shepherd, was a ship owner from Massachusetts. In 1834 he commissioned a vessel to be built in Medford and christened it after his daughter. A painting of the ship Ellen Brooks , attributed to Samuel Walters, is offered in this auction as Lot 359.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-02-01
