Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin (French, 1770-1852), Profile of James Latimer

Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin (French, 1770-1852), Profile of James Latimer Cuthbert (1782-1825), Philadelphia, 1799-1803

Black and white chalk on colored paper, eglomise mat, retains original frame, with biographical notes on verso.

18 ¾ in. x 14 in. (sight)

Provenance

By descent in the Cuthbert Family to the present owner.

Literature

See Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (1994) pg. 280, no. 210, for engraving of James Latimer Cuthbert.

Footnotes

The son of Sarah Latimer and Thomas Cuthbert, Jr., James, a Philadelphia merchant, married Frances Lawersweiler in 1804 and lived at 189 S. 3rd Street, Philadelphia. Cuthbert was elected a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry in 1805 and served in the Mount Bull Campaign during the War of 1812. He was also a member of the Schuylkill Fishing Company.
Condition Report: lot 75: unexamined out of frame; retaining nice color to background; with two small tears / punctures- one to right of head, the other to lower edge; only very minor loss to eglomise; retaining original frame with minor loss to gesso and gilding