Lot 746
Attributed to Robert John Curtis (American/South Carolina, 1816-1877), A Pendant Pair of Portraits of ³Thomas James McMillan (1804-1878)² and ³Louisa Rogers Ray McMillan (1812-1855)², both oil on canvas, unsigned, both stamped ³Prepared by Edward Dechaux, New York² en verso, both 34 in. x 27 in., both framed. Note: Robert Curtis is most well known for his portrait of the Seminole Chief Osceola from 1838, now in the Charleston Museum, which was painted in the Charleston area during the 1830s. Typical of his style, Curtis employs the same background technique here as in his portrait of Osceola; the landscape to Mr. McMillan¹s 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. They are both buried in the Spring Hill Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama. Their daughter, Ellen Marion McMillan, married William Elliot Gordon, Sr. in 1870 in New Orleans.
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