IMPORTANT 19th C. CIVIL WAR ERA ALBUMEN PAINTING BY JOHN W DODGE NYC RARE

Description: UP FOR ACQUISITION IS A PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT 8.75” x 6.75” (not miniature) ANTIQUE CIVIL WAR ERA DATED 1862 PHOTOGRAPHIC PAINTING PORTRAIT BY LISTED AND NOTABLE ARTIST JOHN WOOD DODGE. DODGE IS NOTABLE FOR HAVING DONE 7th PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSONS PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAITS AS WELL AS HAVING HIS PORTRAITS EXHIBITED AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. THE MAN SHOWN IN THE PORTRAIT IS GEORGE A. PHELPS AND I HAVE CAREFULLY PULLED THE BACKING OFF TO SHOW THE BARE PORTRAIT AND THE STUNNING DETAIL CONDITION AND QUALITY. THE VERSO REQDS GEO. A. PHELPS ESQ. THE ORIGINAL INSCRIPTION FROM JOHN WOOD DODGE ON THE BACK AND IN THE PORTRAIT IT READS THE COST OF THIS PAINTING IS $35.00 (AN ASTOUNDING AMOUNT OF MONEY IN 1862). THE PORTRAIT IS ENCASED IN THE ORIGINAL 19th CENTURY ANTIQUE FRAME THAT ARE IN OVERALL GOOD CONDITION FOR THE AGE. THEIR IS A FEW PIECES MISSING ON THE FRONT OF THE MALE PORTRAIT WHICH I WILL INCLUDE AND YOU CAN GLUE AS I DO NOT WANT TO ALTER THE INTEGRITY OF WHAT WAS ACQUIRED. THE FRAME IS RICH IN GOLD COLOR AND VICTORIAN STYLE. THIS IS MUSEUM QUALITY WORK WHOS ART BEEN IN ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS MUSEUMS IN THE WORLD THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART IN MANHATTEN. OTHER ITEM TO NOTE WAS THE PROVENANCE FOR THESE PORTRAITS ARE RENOWNED OSCAR NOMINATED PRODUCTION DESIGNER ALBERT BRENNER AND CAME DIRECTLY FROM HIS ESTATE IN BEVERLY HILLS, CA. GEORGE ALEXANDER PHELPS HAD A SUCCESSFUL FRUIT MERCHANT BUSINESS IN MANHATTEN NEW YORK AND APPEARS TO BE AN ATTORNEY. HE IS FROM A PROMINENT BLOODLINE IMMIGRATING FROM EUROPE AND IS BURIED IN FAIRFIELD CONNECTICUT. ABOUT JOHN WOOD DODGE: John Wood Dodge (1807–1893) was an American painter. He is best known for his portrait miniatures of Southerners. John Wood Dodge was born on November 4, 1807, in New York City.[1][2][3][4][5] His parents and grandparents were all from New York state, and the family home was near Poughkeepsie, New York.[4] At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed to a sign painter, where he painted tinned can of food.[5] He then taught himself how to paint by copying borrowed paintings.[5] He then practised drawings at the National Academy Museum and School in New York City from 1826 to 1827. Dodge focused on painting miniatures on ivory.[5] From 1830 to 1838, his work was exhibited at the National Academy Museum and School in New York City.[2] He was also elected an associated of this academy in 1832.[5] Dodge moved to Alabama in 1838, finally settling down in Nashville, Tennessee, where he lived and worked for twenty-one years.[2] In 1840, he published an article entitled 'Painting and Daguerreotype' in which he criticized the invention of the photography, as it made miniature paintings less popular.[2] Still, in 1842, he did a portrait of Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), whose reproduction as a miniature was widely popular nationally.[2] In 1849, he did a portrait of Varina Howell Davis (1826–1906), the second wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis (1808–1889).[1] However, by the 1850s, he began to take pictures.[2] In 1861, Dodge left Tennessee and returned to New York City, as he supported the Union.[2] In 1865, his new portrait of Andrew Jackson was widely popular again, and widely reproduced.[2] From 1870 to 1888, he moved to Chicago, where he served as Vice President of the (now-defunct) Chicago Academy of Design from 1874 to 1875.[2] In 1888, he returned to his farm in Tennessee, where he continued to paint until 1893.[2] Some of his paintings are exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., as well as the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee.[1][6] In 1845, Dodge purchased land in the Cumberland Mountains near Nashville, which he developed into a homestead together with a log house and an apple orchard

Price: 800 USD

Location: Beverly Hills, California

End Time: 2025-01-31T07:03:01.000Z

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