- American School, 19th Century
Portrait of Toby Buckland. Unsigned, sitter identified on a note
affixed to the back. Oil on canvas, 27 x 22 in., in a grain-painted frame.
Condition: Relined, retouch around edges and scattered retouch to
face, body, and background.
Provenance: An old note affixed verso states that the painting
descended in the Batchelder family who lived in the house presently
serving as the Conway Historical Society.
$800-1,200
- Andrew J. Bascom (American, 19th Century)
Portrait of Amey Ann Haskell in Her 24th Year. Inscribed and dated
“A.J. Bascom Pinxt Apr. 1839/For Amey Ann Haskell in her 24th Year”
verso. Oil on cotton bed ticking, 26 x 23 in., in a period ogee frame.
Condition: Patched tear u.c., minor retouch.
Note: A label affixed to the stretcher is inscribed: “Amey Ann (Haskell)
Bartlett 1815-1883 (68) eldest 5 dau’s John & Asenith (Aldrich) Haskell,
Cumberland & Sheldonville” (Rhode Island).
$600-800
306.
American School, 19th CenturyPortrait of Parsons Cooke, First Pastor at East Church, Ware,
Massachusetts, 1826-55, c. 1825. Unsigned, sitter identified on label
on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in., in a molded giltwood frame.
Condition: Relined, cleaned, stable craquelure. Oil on canvas, 29 x 23
in., in a gold leaf frame.
$800-1,000307.
Embroidered Pieced Wool “Texas Star” Pattern Bedcover, America,
late 19th century, composed of diamond-shaped primarily wool
segments in an array of colors radiating outward from a six-point star,
with a wide border of smaller six-point stars, each diamond segment
embroidered with vibrant flowers and outlined with gold feather
stitching, the whole edged with gray-blue blanket-weight wool and
backed with natural-colored homespun linen or hemp fabric, (scattered
losses to fabric and embroidery stitches), 10 ft. x 8 ft. 10 in.
see detail inside back cover
$5,000-7,00076 additional information and photos at http://www.skinnerinc.com