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THBJOSEPH STEWARD (Connecticut/Massachusetts, 1753-1822), Portrait of Samuel Tracey Coit, circa 1790., Oil on canvas, 19" x 17". Framed 23" x 20.5".
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- Lot Description
JOSEPH STEWARD
Connecticut/Massachusetts, 1753-1822
Portrait of Samuel Tracey Coit, circa 1790. The young boy wears a red jacket and a white ruffled collar and stands before a yellow building and a latticework fence. Unsigned.
Oil on canvas, 19" x 17". Framed 23" x 20.5".
Provenance:
Descended in the Coit family.
Vose Galleries, Boston, 1979.
The Bertram K. & Nina Fletcher Little Collection, Sotheby's, New York, October 21-22, 1994, Lot #712.
The Collection of Richard & Joy Kanter, Sotheby's, New York, January 18, 2002, Lot #691.
The Collection of Martha Hamilton.
Exhibited:
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut.
The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford: "Joseph Steward", November 1981-January 1982. Illustrated in the catalog, p. 163, no. 71.
Notes:
Joseph Steward was an artist, clergyman and entrepreneur born in Worcester County, Massachusetts. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1780, at age 27. He had some lessons in painting from John Trumbull in Hartford in 1792, and in 1793 trustees of Dartmouth College commissioned him to paint full-length portraits of board member John Phillips and founder Eleazar Wheelock.
He is known to have been was a mentor to fellow painters John Brewster, Samuel L. Waldo and Sarah Perkins.
The Sotheby's auction cataloging indicate Nina Fletcher Little noted Samuel Tracey Coit was born May 8, 1790, and that this appears to be part of a group of family portraits of the Coit family of Norwich, Connecticut. The Coits came to Norwich and New London from Salem, and the background seen here could be of the Thames River.Condition
Moderate craquelure with visible stretcher lines. Relined with a clear back. Although the painting presents well under natural light, UV examination reveals several very small spots of paint restoration in the upper right corner and several small spots in the face of the sitter.
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