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Lot 279
Description:
Harold Rudolph (American/New Orleans, 1850-1883/4), "Portrait of Benjamin Ferdinand Wilson (1846-1915) of the 7th Kentucky Infantry of the Confederacy", oil on canvas, signed and dated "1874" mid-right, stencil en verso reading "W.E. Seebold/Bookseller and Stationer/Dealer in Artist's Materials/166 Canal Street/New Orleans", 36 in. x 29 in., in a period giltwood frame.
- Provenance: Provenance: Descended in the family of the sitter, Hickman, KY.
- Notes: Note: This distinguished sitter is shown in a simple pose, belying the highly professional treatment by the very young artist. The high-quality canvas is marked by a full, legible stencil in the center of its reverse, representing the firm of W.E. Seebold, the South's most prominent post-Civil War art dealer, over whose premises the artist had his studio. The frame, with its large pattern of stenciling, is so fine as to presume a New Orleans origin as well. The portrait itself, though simple, is grand and effective; one wishes the artist might have lived longer than his thirty-three years (during the latter half-dozen years of which he turned to Romantic landscape painting).
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July 17, 2010 10:00 AM CDT
New Orleans, LA, US
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