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Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Enoch Wood Perry

The Clock Doctor

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January 24, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Bid

18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Enoch Wood Perry

1831 - 1915


The Clock Doctor

signed E. Wood Perry N.A and dated N.Y - '71 (lower left); signed Perry and dated '71 (lower left)

oil on canvas tacked over panel

21 ⅝ by 26 ⅜ in.

55.1 by 67 cm.

Executed in 1871.

Theodore Irwin, Oswego, New York (acquired directly from the artist on 9 April 1871)

The Old Print Shop, New York (acquired by 1943 and until at least 1948)

Mrs. Thomas Payne

Titus C. Geesey, Wilmington, Delaware

Mrs. Marie Geesey, Wilmington, Delaware (acquired by descent from the above)

Grete Meilman Fine Art, New York

(probably) Private Collection, New York

Christie's, New York, 4 December 1996, lot 46

M.S. Rau Antiques, New Orleans

Acquired from the above in May 2019 by the present owner

New York, National Academy of Design, Summer Exhibition, 1871, no. 197

New York, Brooklyn Art Association, First Chronological Exhibition of American Art, March 1872, no. 232

New York, Brooklyn Art Association, Twenty-Seventh Reception of the Brooklyn Art Association, December 1873, no. 323

New York, The Old Print Shop, 1943, no. 8

New York, John Levy Galleries, American Art in the 19th Century: Its People Pleasures and Pursuits, 1944, no. 20

"The National Academy Exhibition," Scribner's Monthly, vol. II, no. 3, July 1871, p. 330

The Old Print Shop Portfolio, vol. III, no. 2, October 1943, no. 8, p. 39, illustrated

The Old Print Shop Portfolio, vol. IV, no. 8, April 1945, p. 180

The Old Print Shop Portfolio, vol. VII, no. 10, June - July 1948, no. 21, p. 239, illustrated

Linda Mary Jones Gibbs, Enoch Wood Perry, Jr.: A Biography and Analysis of His Thematic and Stylistic Development, Thesis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1981, fig. 36, p. 186, illustrated (dated 1872)