LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

36.00 in. (91.44 cm.) (height) by 29.00 in. (73.66 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Cs Polk No. 47 Painter on reverse under lining

Literature:

Linda Crocker Simmons, Charles Peale Polk, 1767-1822, A Limner and His Likenesses (Washington D.C., 1981), p. 35, no. 39.

Provenance:

George D. Krumbhaar (1837-1916), Philadelphia and Cazenovia, New York Cornelia Cooper Krumbhaar (b. 1869), Cazenovia, New York, daughter Doll and Richards, Boston, Massachusetts The Reid Estate, Purchase, New York, circa 1971 Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, April 17, 1975, lot 13 The Claneil Foundation, Inc. Christie's New York, November 30, 1999, lot 33