Sold for:
$8,295
$8,295
Thomas Sully (Anglo/American, 1783-1872) Portrait of Amelia Colter (née Postlethwaite) Mandeville (1818-1876), c. 1847 Unsigned, with a loan label from the Fogg Art Museum affixed to the reverse. Oil on canvas, 20 x 17 in. (50.8 x 43.2 cm), framed. Condition: Lined, minor retouch. Provenance: From the sitter to her daughter, Amelia Postlethwaite Mandeville [Mrs. Thomas Gleason]; purchased by Roger Griswold Perkins (1874-1936), 1923, [...], private Massachusetts collection. N.B. The sitter was the daughter of Samuel Postlethwaite (1772-1824), a Natchez merchant and president of the Bank of Mississippi in Natchez, and Anne Dunbar (1786-1864).
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-02-03
