Lot 420
Attributed to Felix Thomas Sharples (English/American, c. 1786-after 1824), "Isaac Parker (1768-1830), Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1814-1830)", c. 1814-1824, gouache and oil on pasteboard, unsigned, 8 1/2 in. x 7 in., inscribed on a period giltwood frame with sitter's name, title and dates of incumbency E1000-1500 Note: The three Massachusetts jurists's portraits attributed to the Sharples family in this catalogue (a matching pair of pastels of "Dana" and "Sumner", by James Sharples or a collaborating member of his family, and this differently-executed "Parker", presumably by Felix, the family's sole representative in America after 1811) are all framed and inscribed identically-a situation that would have been logistically possible, of course, only somewhat after Isaac Parker assumed office, in 1814. The fact that the year of Parker's death seems to have been entered on the frame of this portrait in a slightly different style of carving, from the rest of the inscription, might support the hypothesis that Felix Sharples could indeed have executed this portrait in the last recorded decade of his own life, 1814-1824; and that within that span these three matching frames would have been made, possibly to include older, as yet unframed Sharples portraits of "Dana" and "Sumner", or possibly incorporating reprises of such images, that Felix might have replicated in the style of his father James.
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