Lot 671
A. American School, 19th c., The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist, in a Landscape, oil on panel, unsigned, a sketch portrait of gentleman said to be the Rev. Spencer Houghton Cone en verso, 17.5in. x 13.5in. , in an antique giltwood frame. E600-800 Provenance: Charlotte and Edgar Sittig, Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pennsylvania, Collection of Felix Herwig Kuntz. Note: Felix Kuntz acquired this work as a sketch by Thomas Sully. The painting descended in the family of the Reverend Cone who, before he became a Baptist Minister was an actor, a newspaper publisher and a soldier in the War of 1812. He was chaplain to the U.S. Congress (1815-1816) prior to moving to New York where he was at the First Baptist Church from 1841-1855.
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