Important Amer🍨icana from the Collection of W. Forbes and Jane Ramsey
SARAH PERKINS | MAJOR ANDREW BILLINGS
Lot Closed
May 1, 06:27 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Important Americana from the Collection of🍒 W. Forbes a🎶nd Jane Ramsey
SARAH PERKINS
1771 - 1831
MAJOR ANDREW BILLINGS
oil on canvas
Canvas: 30½ by 24 in. (77.5 by 61 cm.)
Framed: 36¼ by 29¾ in. (92 by 75.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1785.
Maze Pottinger Antiques, Bloomfield Hills
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III
Sotheby's New York, April 30 1981, Lot 62
Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Earl
Christie's New York, Fine American Furniture, Silver, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, January 21, Lot 383
Colleen Heslip and Helen Kellogg, "The Beardsley Limner Identified as Sarah Perkins," Antiques, September 1984, pp. 548-565, pl. IV
Richmond, The Virginia Museum, American Folk Paintings: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III, November 1977 - June 1979
New York, American Federation of Arts, American Folk Paintings: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III, no. 2
Yorktown, Virginia Bicentennial Commission, Patriotic Folk Art, November 1979 - March 1980