$7,110
American School, 19th Century Portrait of Sally Mathilda and Mary Elizabeth Everett and Their Dog, c. 1846. Unsigned. Oil on canvas applied to Masonite, 50 x 35 1/4 in., in a later molded gold-painted frame. Condition: Craquelure, repaint to background sky and scattered retouch to figures and scenery. Provenance: The portrait has descended in the family of the sitters. Note: The two figures depicted here are reportedly the sisters of multimillionaire industrialist and philanthropist Edward H. Everett, one of the largest stockholders in Standard Oil, and whose 1914 Beaux-Arts home in Washington, D.C., is now the Turkish Embassy. Sarah (Sally), on the left, later married Wilbur Fisk Hinman, a Civil War soldier in the 65th Ohio Infantry, and the author of the best selling Civil War novel Corporal Si Klegg and his "Pard," renowned as one of the most historically accurate writings on the war.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-08-12
