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THBThomas Sully
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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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About Auction
LiveOct 17, 2024
Features a remarkable selection of historic Americana, including important 18th-century American furniture and Delft from the collection of Constance & Dudley Godfrey; an exceptionally rare North Carolina survey map; New England & Philadelphia furniture, including an exceptional Philadelphia easy chair & a rare Connecticut Chippendale carved cherry chest in undisturbed surface; from a Revolutionary & patriotic-focused New England collection are rare prints & documents, early brass, ceramics, furniture, & accessories; a group of early portraits features Sully, Stuart, & Sharples; & much more Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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- Lot Description
(English/America, 1783–1872)
Dr. Leonard Koecker, M.D., D.D.S., 1818, oil on canvas, 35-3/8 x 27-3/4 in.; restored period carved gilt wood frame, 44 x 36-1/2 in.
Provenance: The sitter; By descent in the family to private collection, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Private Collection, New York; Michael Borghi Fine Art, New Jersey; Private collection, New Jersey, acquired directly from the above, 2004; By descent through the family to the present owner
Note: See attached research on this work by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D.
Exhibited: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully, April 9–May 10, 1922, p. 40, no. 61, illus., loaned by his granddaughter, Miss Leonora L. Koecker, of Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, (label verso).
Literature: Charles Henry Hart, A Register of Portraits Painted by Thomas Sully, 1801–1871 (Philadelphia: Charles Henry Hart, 1908), p. 99, no. 966, as “Koecker, L. ‘Dentist,’ 1818”; Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding. The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783–1872), (1921; reprinted Charleston: Garnier & Company, 1969), p. 201, no. 1001, as “Portrait begun Nov. 1st,181[7], finished Feb. 11th, 1818”.
- Provenance
The sitter; By descent in the family to private collection, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Private Collection, New York; Michael Borghi Fine Art, New Jersey; Private collection, New Jersey, acquired directly from the above, 2004; By descent through the family to the present owner
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- Condition
lined, stabilized crackle, areas of retouch; frame with wear, possibly original period liner possibly added to cut down period frame
