LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.9 cm.)
Description:
Literature:
G.C. Woodruff, letter to Secretary of the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, February 15, 1844. G.C. Woodruff, letter to Charles Hosmer, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, March 13, 1844. T. Sizer, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven, Connecticut, 1950, p. 64. T. Sizer, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven, Connecticut, 1967, p. 83. E.G. Miles, American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century, Washington, D.C., 1995, pp. 304, 306. T. Stebbins, M. Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, vol. 1, New Haven, Connecticut, 2008, pp. 476-78.
Provenance:
The artist. Governor Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Connecticut, acquired from the above, by 1829. Dr. John Stoughton Wolcott, Litchfield, Connecticut, son of the above, by descent, 1833. Estate of the above. William Jay, New York, acquired from the above, 1844. Honorable John Jay II, New York, 1858. Colonel William Jay, New York, 1894. Mrs. Arthur Iselin, Katonah, New York, 1915. William Jay Iselin, 1953. Christie's, New York, 25 January 1986, lot 234, sold by the above. Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above. Private collection, Missouri, acquired from the above, 1988. Private collection, acquired from the above. Christie's, New York, 23 May 2013, lot 47, sold by the above. Acquired by the late owner from the above.
