PO Box 2135
Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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May 17, 2014 - May 18, 2014
(French, 1770-1852) Important and rare portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), (M.446), signed "St. Mn. ft..?, first state, engraving on paper, 2-3/4 x 2-3/4 in. (plate); unframed, foxing, sewn to loose page from journal. Notes: Jefferson paid for a total of 48 impressions which he gave to family members and many friends including the Marquis de Lafayette. It is likely that this miniature may have been received from his hand, given the family's political prominence. Literature: Ellen Miles, [Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America], Smithsonian Institution, 1994. Provenance: Formerly from a journal or book dated 1802 and owned by Mrs. Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson (1770-1848), wife of Chief Justice Joseph Hopper Nicholson, and the second daughter of Col. Edward Lloyd, President of the Executive Council, under the colonial government of Maryland; by descent in the Lloyd and Shippen Family
foxing, sewn to loose page from journal
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