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Lot 295
Description:
George Caleb Bingham (American/Missouri, 1811-1879) "Portrait of William Joseph Eddins, Jr. (1814-1870s)", 1844-45, oil on canvas, unsigned, 30 1/4 in., x 25 1/4 in., in an ornately carved, gessoed, and giltwood frame. ?
- Provenance: Provenance: Descended in the family of the sitter; to the present owner (details in Bloch 1986).
- Literature: Reference: E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1986, page 170, no. 153, plate 60.
- Notes: Note: This portrait thus comes at the very beginning of Bingham's most celebrated decade, 1845-1855, during which he sent to various Eastern institutions his miraculous series of "River pictures," a new type of genre painting devoted to the life of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, of which "The Jolly Flatboatmen" is the iconic example. Together with his fur traders, scenes of rural electioneering, and landscapes, these enchantingly specific, yet universally generalized, canvases make Bingham the most important painter of the middle of the 19th century in America.
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April 16, 2011 10:00 AM CDT
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