Lot 369: FREDERIK CARL EMIL VON SCHOLTEN (1796-1853)

THREE ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS:
VIEW FROM WEST POINT ON THE HUDSON; SAW MILL NEAR OGDENSBURG SO. OF N.Y.; THE RESIDENCE OF JOHN KNEVELS ESQ. NEAR FISHKILL LANDING

THREE ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS:
VIEW FROM WEST POINT ON THE HUDSON; SAW MILL NEAR OGDENSBURG SO. OF N.Y.; THE RESIDENCE OF JOHN KNEVELS ESQ. NEAR FISHKILL LANDING

Dated 1839.
The views are individually signed and dated:
Saw Mill near Ogdensburg (not signed), 2^nd September 1839
View from West Point on the Hudson, 20^th September 1839
The Residence of John Knevels, Esq. 17^th September 1840

watercolor, pen and ink on paper

each 9 by 12 in.
22.9 by 30.5cm

NOTE

Frederik Carl Emil von Scholten (1796-1853), Danish Naval officer and artist, was customs inspector in Frederiksted (Danish West Indies) and brother to Peter von Scholten, governor of the Danish West Indies, who freed the slaves. He travelled intensely and made a number of drawings on his travels to Europe, America and the West Indies. A collection of two sketchbooks is held in a Danish Naval Museum.
The Knevels family (picture no. 3) has relations to the West Indies: a certain Isaac Adrian Knevels of St. John, died in that area in 1876, 72 years old.