Lot 854
An American Federal Inlaid Card Table, c. 1790 and later, probably Baltimore, serpentine foldover top, frieze with shell inlay and banding, square tapered legs inlaid with bellflowers, in "estate" condition, height 28 3/4 in., width 35 1/2 in., depth 17 1/2 in at Heidelberg University. Intrigued by the American Indian stories of James Fenimore Cooper, around 1840 he immigrated to America. By 1845 he moved to Louisville, Kentucky where he opened a portrait studio. Frye opened a second portrait studio two years later in Huntsville, Alabama. In 1865 the Kentucky legislature commissioned Frye to paint a posthumous portrait of Henry Clay. Frye's carreer was cut short by mental and physical health problems. Eventually he was committed to the Alabama Insane Hospital, where he died at the age of 50. Reference: Adams, E. Bryding "William Frye, Artist", Alabama Heritage, University of Alabama, spring 1994.
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