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

Alfred Jacob Miller

Reconnoitering

Live auction begins on:

January 24, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Bid

25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Alfred Jacob Miller

1810 - 1874


Reconnoitering

inscribed (upper left); titled (on artist's mount)

watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper laid down on artist's mount

image: 6 ¼ by 5 ⅛ in. 15.8 by 13.1 cm.

overall: 13 ⅛ by 11 in. 33.3 by 27.9 cm.

Executed circa 1837.

Sir William Drummond Stewart, Perthshire, Scotland (acquired directly from the artist circa 1839) 

Frank Nichols, Perthshire, Scotland (acquired by descent from the above)

Chapman's, Edinburgh, 16-17 June 1871 (consigned by the above)

Bonamy Mansell Power, London

Edward Power, London (acquired by descent from the above in 1900)

Major G.H. Power, Great Yarmouth, England (acquired by descent from the above)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 6 May 1966, lot 42 (consigned by the above) 

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Glacier Gallery, Kalispell, Montana

Private Collection

Texas Art Gallery, Dallas

Private Collection (acquired from the above by 2008)

Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 2008, lot 165 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Denver Art Museum, A Series of Watercolour Drawings by Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist to Captain Stewart's Expedition in 1837, 1966

Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum and Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller, 2008-09, pl. 2, p. 215, illustrated in color

Sanka Knox, “83 Drawings from 1837 Trek to Rockies are Auctioned Here,” The New York Times, 7 May 1966, p. 28

Ron Tyler, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982, no. 396, p. 334