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Lot 686
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Attributed to Robert John Curtis (American/South Carolina, 1816-1877), A Pendant Pair of Portraits of "Thomas James McMillan (1804-1878)" and "Louisa Rogers Ray McMillan (1812-1855)", oil on canvas, unsigned, each stamped "Prepared by Edward Dechaux, New York" en verso, both 34 in. x 27 in., in matching period gilt frames.
- Provenance: Provenance: Descended in the family of the sitters.
- Notes: Note: Robert Curtis, who is most well known for his portrait of the Seminole Chief Osceola from 1838, (now in the Charleston Museum), painted in the Charleston area during the 1830s. Curtis employs the same background technique here as in his portrait of Osceola; the landscape to Mr. McMillan's right, in particular, is remarkably similar to the landscape to the right of Osceola. Louisa Rogers Ray McMillan, who was born in Sumter County, South Carolina, to Captain Peter and Mary Ray, married Thomas McMillan, an immigrant from Scotland. The couple resided in Camden, South Carolina, until 1834, when they moved to Mobile, Alabama. Both are buried in the Spring Hill Cemetery in Mobile. Their daughter, Ellen Marion McMillan, married William Elliot Gordon, Sr. in 1870 in New Orleans.
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