Lot 1621: SARAH MIRIAM PEALE (American, 1800-1885). PORTRAIT OF HALL HARRISON, oil on canvas.

Name: SARAH MIRIAM PEALE (American, 1800-1885). PORTRAIT OF HALL HARRISON, oil on canvas.
Brand: Sloans & Kenyon
SKU: ewbgbeqkct

Est: $8,000 USD - $10,000 USD

Sloans & KenyonChevy Chase, MD, USSeptember 14, 2008

Item Overview

Description

SARAH MIRIAM PEALE (American, 1800-1885). PORTRAIT OF HALL HARRISON, oil on canvas - 29 1/2 in x 24 1/2 in.

Artist or Maker

Sarah Miriam Peale

Condition Report

Lined. Fine craquelure throughout. Minor surface dirt and debris. Small raised area with tiny flakes on left side lapel. Uneven varnish. UV: Small dots of well-done inpainting throughout face and cravat. Craquelure floresces in background - possibly residue of lining adhesive.

Notes

EXHIBITED: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

"HALL HARRISON ... was born at Cambridge, Md., Oct. 13, 1774, and died in Baltimore, Sept. 3, 1830. He came to Baltimore when still a youth, was apprenticed to Mr. George Grundy as clerk, and brought up in the dry goods business. He lived in Mr. Grundy''s family until his majority, when he went to England and visited his relations in Appleby. A portrait of him is in the family, on the back of which is written " H. Harrison sailed from Baltimore on the ship Carrollton, Capt. Martin, May 14, 1797." He came back to Baltimore after a few years; and on March 17, 1800, he married Elizabeth Galt, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Thompson Galt of Coleraine, Ireland. At this time she was on a visit to her uncle, Hugh Thompson, of Baltimore.

In 1802 or 3 he moved to Easton, Md., and was Cashier of the Branch of the Farmer''s Bank of Maryland until 1810, when he returned to Baltimore and formed a partnership with Govert Haskins in the iron business, in Bowly''s wharf. In 1811 this partnership was dissolved; and he formed a new one with Maj. Thomas Yates. On the death of the latter after a year, Samuel Sterett joined him ; and the firm became Harrison and Sterett, Vendue Merchants." Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. X, Baltimore, 1915, William Hand Browne, Louis Henry Dielman, editors.

PROVENANCE:
Hall Harrison (1774-1830)
Samuel Thompson Harrison (1815-1857) (son), m. Emily Kuhn
Charles Kuhn Harrison (1847-1908) (son), m. Louisa Triplett Haxall
Emily Kuhn Haxall Harrison (1872-) (daughter), m. W. Stuart Symington, Jr.
W. Stuart Symington III (1901-1988) (son), US Senator, Missouri, m. Evelyn Wadsworth
James W. Symington (born 1927) (son), US Representative, Missouri

Auction Details

Day 3: Three Day Estate Catalogue Auctio

Sloans & Kenyon

September 14, 2008, 10:00 AM EST

7034 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815, US

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