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