$920
Phineas Staunton (American, 1817-1867) Portrait of Gordon H. Amy (1835-1859). Initialed and dated "PS 1853" l.l., artist and subject identified in later label on reverse stretcher. Oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in., in a molded gilt gesso frame. Condition: Repaired puncture u.l., retouched, varnish inconsistencies. N.B. Staunton began his career as an itinerant painter in New York, New England, and the South. His travels were interrupted by a period of study in Philadelphia in the late 1830s. He married Emily Ingham, co-founder of the first American Women's College, and during the 1850s painted portraits in New Orleans, Connecticut, and his studio in New York City. Throughout the Civil War he served as a Colonel in a New York regiment. In 1867, he joined a Smithsonian Institution expedition to South America in search of artifacts. He died in Quito.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2001-10-28