Lot 1177: Unidentified printmaker after Alonzo Chappel (1828-1887) Fine American and European Furniture, Silver, Folk and Decorative Arts and Clocks

The Surrender at Appomattox, April 9, 1865, 1884 Engraving 17 5/8 x 23 1/2in (44.7 x 59.7cm)

44.7 x 59.7cm

: Brandywine River Museum / Brandywine Conservancy, (Chadd's Ford, PA), Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore, MD) and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA), "The Portraits and History Paintings of Alonzo Chappel," 1992.

The painting depicts the interior of the home of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, where, on April 9, 1865, the American Civil War ended with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. See David Meschutt and Barbara J. Mitnick, The Portraits and History Paintings of Alonzo Chappel (Chadd's Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, 1992), no. 35.