PORTRAIT OF DAVIS OLD (B. 1753), Attributed to Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin (1770 - 1852)
Attributed to Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin (1770 - 1852)
together with an engraved profile portrait of the sitter in a molded brass frame, inscribed on the verso with the title and date on verso - Davis Old - 1806; Ironmaster of Lancaster County, PA, where he was born and died; (2 pieces).
Oil on canvas
22 1/2 by 18 in.; the profile portrait Diameter 2 1/2 in.
Circa 1800
likely Philadelphia
Provenance:
For another profile portrait of Davis Old see Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America, (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994), p. 364, no. 627.
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Attributed to Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin (1770 - 1852)
together with an engraved profile portrait of the sitter in a molded brass frame, inscribed on the verso with the title and date on verso - Davis Old - 1806; Ironmaster of Lancaster County, PA, where he was born and died; (2 pieces).
Oil on canvas
22 1/2 by 18 in.; the profile portrait Diameter 2 1/2 in.
Circa 1800
likely Philadelphia
Provenance:
For another profile portrait of Davis Old see Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America, (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994), p. 364, no. 627.
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