LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on cradled wood panel

Size Notes:

framed 42 x 34.25 in

Markings:

handwritten inscriptions and label identifying artist and sitter and his home address #27 St. Mark's Place New York City#

Condition:

In a period frame with artist and sitter plaque

Provenance:

Provenance: This portrait was in the collection of noted Aurora, Illinois businessman, art collector and native Tennessean, James M. Cowan (1858-1930). Cowan donated sixty-three pieces of art from his collection to Nashville's city art museum the Parthenon in 1927. This portrait descended in the Cowan family and sold at Cowan's Historic Americana Auction, February 18, 2006; Estate of Dr. Carroll Ball, Jackson, Mississippi.