$558
Louis Lemet (French/American, circa 1779-1832) Portrait of William Beekman June 1805. Signed "[Engrav'd by L.Lemet" l.c., subject identified below. Engraving on paper, bust-length profile portrait with pen and ink border, 3 x 2 1/2 in a lacquered wood frame with oval brass liner. Condition: Toning, stains. Note: Louis Lemet (circa 1779-1832), was a French émigré who had served as Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin"s (1770-1852) assistant, making portraits in Philadelphia around 1804. He worked in Albany, New York in 1805 to about 1828, then to New York City where he died in 1832. He worked in a style very similar to Saint-Mémin's. The Beekman name is well-known in politics and commerce in New York in the 17th-19th centuries.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-11-03
