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THBZEDEKIAH BELKNAP (Massachusetts/Connecticut/New Hampshire, 1781-1858), Part of portraits, likely a husband and his wife, circa 1815., Oils on panel an
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The Peter and Judi Hersey Collection of Hingham, Massachusetts History and the Collection of Arun and Barbara Singh. Eldred's info@eldreds.com
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ZEDEKIAH BELKNAP
Massachusetts/Connecticut/New Hampshire, 1781-1858
Part of portraits, likely a husband and his wife, circa 1815. Unsigned. Housed in their original hand-painted frames.
Oils on panel and canvas, 24.5" x 19.25". Framed 28" x 24.25".
Provenance:
A minister in Marlow, New Hampshire, who sold them on behalf of his parishoners.
Rockwell Gardiner, Stamford, Connecticut, 1975.
The Bertram K. Little & Nina Fletcher Little Collection, Sotheby's, New York: Sale 6526, January 29, 1994, Lot #354.
James and Ann Lowder, Columbus, Ohio.
Marguerite Riordan Antique Furnishings & Works of Art, Stonington, Connecticut, 2001.
The Collection of Arun and Barbara Singh.
Exhibited:
The Addy Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia: "Zedekiah Belknap 1781-1858: Itinerant New England Portrait Painter", 1977.
Illustrated:
Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts by Nina Fletcher Little, p. 116, fig. 152 and 153.
Reference:
"Zedekiah Belknap 1781-1858: Itinerant New England Portrait Painter" by Elizabeth Mankin in The Magazine Antiques, November 1976, p. 1056-70, fig. 11-2.
Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts by Nina Fletcher Little (N.Y.: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1984), p. 116, fig. 152-3.
Notes:
Zedekiah Belknap was born in Ward (now Auburn), Massachusetts and attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1807. His earliest documented portraits date from the year he graduated. He worked as an itinerant portrait painter throughout Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts for more than 40 years before settling at a family farm in Vermont in the late 1840s. More than 170 portraits are attributed to him.Lady is painted on canvas and laid down on board. Although the painting presents very well under natural light, UV examination revealed some moderate and scattered paint restorations, as well as some varnish drip inconsistencies. Gentleman is painted directly on the panel. One vertical each split to the panel towards the left side. Again, the natural light examination looks good, but UV reveals some moderate paint restoration.Condition
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