WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL, JR. (MA/DC, 1858-1926)
"The Black and Gold Fan" (Portrait of Edith Mabel Edwards Safford), signed upper right and dated 1900, housed in a magnificent carved gilt matched corner frame, OS: 43 1/2" x 37 1/2", SS: 31 1/2" x 25 1/2". Cleaned and relined.
Includes the bodice she was wearing, framed in a shadowbox under glass.
Edith was the wife of Nathaniel Morton Safford, of Milton, Massachusetts, an attorney and member of a prominent New England whaling family. (His mother was Josephine Eugenia, daughter of Joseph (a descendant of George Morton, who arrived at Plymouth in 1623). Edith was twenty-four years old when she sat for the portrait.
Provenance: Exhibited in 1906 at the Twentieth Century Club, catalog no. 5; ex-Dolores Kritzer Collection, Culpepeer, Virginia; New England Gallery, Andover, Mass.
View it on
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
"The Black and Gold Fan" (Portrait of Edith Mabel Edwards Safford), signed upper right and dated 1900, housed in a magnificent carved gilt matched corner frame, OS: 43 1/2" x 37 1/2", SS: 31 1/2" x 25 1/2". Cleaned and relined.
Includes the bodice she was wearing, framed in a shadowbox under glass.
Edith was the wife of Nathaniel Morton Safford, of Milton, Massachusetts, an attorney and member of a prominent New England whaling family. (His mother was Josephine Eugenia, daughter of Joseph (a descendant of George Morton, who arrived at Plymouth in 1623). Edith was twenty-four years old when she sat for the portrait.
Provenance: Exhibited in 1906 at the Twentieth Century Club, catalog no. 5; ex-Dolores Kritzer Collection, Culpepeer, Virginia; New England Gallery, Andover, Mass.
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
