Philadelphia Art Galleries. Paintings, statuary, etc. V E.C.L. 751 .450294 H319 P544 1912 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Duke University Libraries https://archive.org/details/paintingsstatuar01phil PAINTINGS STATUARY, ETC. The Remainder of the C-ollection of the Late- JOSEPH HARRISON, JR. and belonging to the Estate of MRS. SARAH HARRISdS DECEASED 1 . The Philadelphia Art Galleries S, E. Corner 15th and Chestnut Streets Philadelphia, Pa. Entrance, 103 S. 15th Street (Elevator) Paintings, Statuary, etc. // THE REMAINDER of the Collection of the Late JOSEPH HARRISON, Jr. (of 221 S. 1 8th St., Rittenhouse Square) and belonging to the Estate of Mts. Sarah Harrison, Deceased To be Sold Without Reserve Under the Terms of the Will of said Decedent By Order of MR. THEODORE L. HARRISON and MR. WILLIAM T. ELLIOTT Executors On Monday Afternoon, February 26th at 2.30 o^clock at The Philadelphia Art Galleries S. E. Corner 15th and Chestnut Streets, 2d floor Philadelphia Entrance 103 S. I5th St. (Elevator) LATE HARRY BARE Manager M. THOMAS & SONS On Exhibition Thursday, February 22, until days of Sale from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. 1912 Terms and Conditions of Sale All bills payable in CASH before delivery. In case of disputes between bid- ders the lot in dispute shall immedi- ately be put up again and resold. The sale of any Article will not be set aside on account of any error in the description, or imperfection. All articles are exposed for Public Exhibition one or more days, and are sold just as they are, without recourse. To prevent errors in delivery, goods cannot be removed without presentation of the bill, and nothing will be delivered during the sale. We will not be responsible for goods damaged in delivering. Goods carefully packed and shipped. Ladies and gentlemen unable to attend the sale can have their buy- ing orders executed by us without extra charge. PHILADELPHIA ART GALLERIES 75 ( /^3i9 P'Sfi The Wood Nymph By E. Leutze (Size of canvas. 33j^ x 40 inches) Index of Artists Represented Birch, Thos., 4, 5, ii Carlini, Pietro, 7 Cropsey, J. F., 8, 9, 16 Casilear, J. W., 13 Cole, Thos., 21 Durand. A. B., 21 Geyer, Johann, r8 Hamilton, James, i Hayden, B. K., 33 Leutze, 3 Le Brnn, V.. 12 Lucy, Chas., 20 Leighton, Fred’k, 22 May, Edward H., 14 Page, Wm., 15 Peale, C. W., 26, 28 Peale, Rembrandt, 29 Quidor, John 36, 37, 38, 39. 40, 41, 42 Read, T. Buchanan, 19 Rothermel, P. F., 24. 34 Robbe, Louis, 31 Schussele, Christian, 23 Stuart, G., 30 Unknown, 32 Von Wille, Clara, 6 Wittkamp, B., 10, 27 Westall, Rich'd, 17 West, Benj., 25 Wilkie. D., 35 Wilkie, Sir John, 33 to the Constable of the Tower Columbus and tlie Egg lly Jolianu Gcycr of canvas, 7:? \ 57 inrlics) CATALOGUE Sale commences at 2.30 o’clock, Monday Afternoon, February 26, 1912' (The size printed is the size of tlie canvas) J. HAMILTON I Vision of Columbus “The pilot smote his breast ; the watchman cried ‘Land !’ and his voice in faltering accents died. At once the fury of the crew was quelled ; And (whence or why from many an age withheld) Shrieks, not of men, were mingling in the blast ; And armed shapes of god-like stature passed ! Slowly along the evening sky they went. As on the edge of some vast battlement : Helmet and shield, and spear and gonfalon. Streaming a baleful light that was not of the sun !” From. Rogers’ “Voyage of Columbus,” Canto II. (Width, 45 inches; height, 30)4 inches) A. B. DURAND / 2 Departure of Columbus from the Harbor of Palos on His First Voyage (Width, 20 inches; length, 15)4 inches) E. LEUTZE /iJ 3 The Wood Nymph (Width, 42 inches; height, 57 inches) 12 THOMAS BIRCH 4 Engagement Between U. S. Frigate United Jj States and British Frigate Macedonian (Width, 36 indies; height, 28 inches) THOMAS BIRCH 5 Engagement Between U. S. Frigate Constitu- tion and British Frigate Guerriere dV 5 i^ngat (A'idth, 36 inches; height, 28 inches) CLARA VON WTLLE 6 The Bone of Contention / 0 6 inches; height, 47 inches) PIF/J'RO CARLINI X'enice 7 Portrait of Victor Emanuel in Hunting Costume ^ (From life.) (Width, 26 inches; height, 32 inches) J. F. CROPSFY 8 The Spirit of War (\\’idth, 67 indies; height 44 inches) J. F. CROPSFY , 9 The Spirit of Peace (Width. (17 indies; height. 44 inches) Benjamin Franklin Before the Privy Council in London, June 29, 1773 Patrick Henry delivering his Famous Speech in the House of Burgesses, Virginia, A. D. 1765 No. 24 By P. F. Rothermel (Size of canvas, 61^2 x 70 inches) 15 B. WITTKAAIP 10 Portrait of the Artist (Width, 38 inches; height, 51 inches) Belgium lU X ' ^It) THOMAS BIRCH ^ II Engagement Between the Wasp and Frolic. (A'idth, 36 inches: height. 28 inches) VEZIA LE BRUN 12 Portrait of Madame Roland (Width, 25)Z inches; height, 30 inches) JOHN W. CASILEAR 13 Landscape View (Width, 10)4 inches; height, 7 inches) EDWARD H. MAY Lady Jane Grey, as She Goes to Execution, Gives Her Tablets as a Remembrance to the Constable of the Tower (Width, 80 inches; height, 59 inches) WILLIAAI PAGE Mother and Child (Width, 36)4 inches; height, 48 inches) T. F. CROPSEY Millennial Age. (An Allegorical Landscape.) ‘And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people ; and they shall heat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks ; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” — Isaiah a, -/. "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamp, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” — Isaiah si, 6. (Width, 54 inches; height, 38(y C. \\\ Peale 19*4 ^ 2;, inches) CHRISTIAN SCHUESSELE 23 Dr. Benjamin Franklin Before the Privy Council in London, January 29, 1773 "A personal animosit}' between Goverrior Bernard, Lieu- tenant-Governor Hutchinson, and some distinguished patriots of Massachusetts, contributed to perpetuate a flame of discon- tent in that Province, though elsewhere it had abated. This was worked up, in 1773, to a high pitch by a singular combina- tion of circumstances. Letters had been wudtten by Llutchin- son, Peter Olit er, the Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court, and others, to persons in power and office in England, which contained a very unfavorable representation of public affairs. These letters came into the hands of Dr. Franklin, who was then the agent of the Colon}^ of Massachusetts, in London, and they were transmitted by him to his constituents. Great indig- nation was excited on their perusal. The House of Represen- tatives drew up and sent a petition to his Majesty, in which they charged their Governor and Lieutenant-Governor with being betra^'ers of their trust, and of giving private, partial, and false information. They declared them enemies to the Colonies, and prayed for justice against them, and their speedj^ removal from office. The merits of this petition were discussed before his Majesty’s Priv}' Council. After a hearing, in which Dr. Franklin represented the Province of Massachusetts, the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor w'ere acquitted. Mr. Wed- derburne (afterwards Lord Loughborough), wdio defended the accused royal servants, inveighed against Dr. Franklin in the severest language as the fomenter of disputes between the tw^o countries. It was no protection to this venerable sage, that, being the agent of Massachusetts, he conceived it his duty to inform his constituents of letters written on public affairs cal- culated to overturn their chartered constitution. The philippic of Wedderburne turned mainly upon the mode in which Dr. Franklin had obtained these letters. " ‘These letters could not,' said Mr. Wedderburne, ‘have come into Dr. Franklin’s hands by fair means. Nothing will acquit him of having obtained them by fraudulent or corrupt means for the most malignant purposes. I hope, my Lords, you will mark and brand the man for the honor of this country, of Europe, and of mankind. Private correspondence has hith- erto been held sacred in times of the great part}^ rage, not only 24 in politics, but religion. He has forfeited all the respect of societies and of men. Into what companies will he hereafter go with an unembarrassed face or the honest intrepidity of virtue? Men will watch him with a jealous eye; they will hide their papers from him, and lock up their escritories.’ And much more of the same strain of vulgar abuse, all of which I'ranklin bore ‘without the least apparent emotion.’ "These pleadings for a time worked great effects. Dr. l''ranklin was dismissed from his Deputy Postmastership in America, and Mr. AVedderburne placed himself on the road to high advancement which he sought, and with which he was rewarded. The insult offered to one of their public agents, and especially to one who was both the idol and ornament of his countiT, sunk deep into the minds of the Americans. "The next morning after the meeting of the Privy Council, Dr. Priestly breakfasted with Dr. Franklin, when he said: ‘He had never before been so sensilile of the power of a good con- science ; for that if he had not considered the thing for which he had been so much insulted as one of the best actions of his life, and what he should certainly do again in the same cir- cumstances, he could not hate supported it.’ He was accused of clandestinely procuring certain letters, and of sending them to .America, with a view to excite animosity against the gov- ernor and others, and thus to embroil the two countries. But he assured Dr. Priestly that ‘he did not even know that such letters e.xisted until they were brought to him as agent for the Colony, in order to be sent to his constituents; and the cover of the letters on which the directions had been written having- been lost, he only guessed at the person to whom they were addressed by their contents.’ ” I'klc ‘‘Memoirs,'' etc., by IVnt. Temple Tranlclin, London, jSiS. (Width, 8514 inches; height. 57^4 inches) Portrait of Washington No. 29 By Rembrandt Peale (Si^e of canvas, 54 x 72 inches) Portrait of Washington Xo. 30 Bj- Gilbert Stuart (.Size of canvas, 23^4 x 29 inches) (See Letter Xo. 30A in Catalogue) P. F. ROTMKKMEL ^7 24 Patrick Henry Delivering His Famous Speech in the House of Burgesses, Virginia, A. D. 1765 "Cajsar has his Brutus. Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third" — ( "Treason," , cried the speaker; "treason, treason.” echoetl from every part of the house.) Henry faultered not for an instant, but rising to' a loftier altitude, concluded thus: "i\Iay profit by their e.xainple. If this be treason, let us make the most of it.” (Width, 61F2 inches; height, 70 inches) . BENJAMIN WEST 25 Sir Philip Sydney. (Painted 1806.) d'dd (Width, 62 inches; lieight, 78 inches) C. W. PILALE 26 Portrait of Washington "d'he last portrait from life, painted by Peale, was e.xecuted in 178,^, and continued in possession of the artist until his death. It was sold with the ‘Peale Gallerv',' at Philadelphia. See letter of Benson J. Losing, Escp, in appendix to first edition of liodng’s life of tVashin,gton, page 501. .\ppleton & Co. (Width, 19 inches; height, 2334 inches) B. ATT'TKAMP Antwerp, Belgium King Lear, Gloster and Edgar The trick of that ^■oice 1 do well remember. Is’t not the king? Lear. Ay, every inch a king; When f do stare, see how the subject quakes. Shakspeare's Tragedy of King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6. (Width, 77Y2 inches: height, g8Y inches) 28 C. AV. PEALE r 28 Portrait of Franklin. (Painted a few days before his death.) Copy of a letter, from Rembrandt Peale to present owner of the portrait, dated June loth, 1859. “The portrait of Franklin which you bought at the sale of the Peale Gallery, was painted by my father in the year 1790. It was only one sitting. I accompanied ni}- father to engage him for another to finish it. We found him sitting up in his bed-room, in much pain, with the sad conviction that he should never leave it. Yet the resigned expression of his venerable countenance, and his noble patriarchal head, from which flowed ample locks of gray hair on his shoulders, impressed me with unspeakable reverence. “He died ten days after this. I was among the multitude that attended his funeral at the corner of Arch and Fifth streets. I sat on the wall directly over the grave — and the solemn sound of the earth, as it fell on the coffin, to hide him forever from sight, vibrated in my heart. I was absorbed in melancholy reverie as it became dark, and when I raised my eyes, the crowd of twent}" thousand persons had, to me uncon- sciously, dispersed, I decended from mj- solitary seat — I felt sick and went home, silent and supperless to bed. “As connected with my authentication of this portrait. I narrate this extraordinary excitement of the Artist Boy." (Width, I9pt inches: height, 23 inches) REMBRANDT PEALE 29 Portrait of Washington Painted by Peale from his original portrait of \\'ashington in the U. S. Senate Chamber. (Width. 54 inches: height, 72 inches) Portrait of Benjamin Franklin No. 32 Artist Unknown (Size of canvas, 25H ^ inches) King Lear, Gloster and Edgar Bj‘ P. F, Rothermel (Size of canvas. 87 x 125J4 inches) No. 34 3 ^ GILl’.ERT STUART 30 Portrait of Washington 'chased from the late tt'illiam A'aughan, Esq., London. On the l)ack of the canvas is written. “General Washington, by Ur. Stuart.” Extract from Rembrandt Peak's Lecture on the Portraits of U'ashington : "Ur. Stuart's Urst portrait of U’ashington \Yas painted simultaneously with mine, in September, 1795. From this por- trait he made fi\'e copies : but. becoming dissatisfied with it. some years afterward sold it for two hundred dollars to Win- stanle}', the landscape painter. Of this I was informed by Dr. Thornton, in Washington, soon after its .occurrence, so that it was not literally rubbed out. as has been supposed. Winstanley took it to London, where it was bought by Ur. U'illiam Vaughan, and it is now in the possession of Joseph Harrison. Jr., of Philadelphia, who has permitted me to copy it. Although this portrait was not satisfactory to iUr. Stuart, yet I think in the lower portion of the face it has the advantage over the por- trait he afterwards painted. A small copy of it I have seen in Baltimore, certified on the back Iw Robert Gilmore, as painted for him by James Plouse, from Stuart's first portrait of Wash- ington. To me it .was interesting in making this copy of the work of a fellow-artist, to study his first impressions of the li\ing countenance of Washington.” (Width. 23J4 inches; height, 29 inches) 3 ^ 3oa Letter from Rembrandt Peale to Joseph Harri- son, Esq., written February i6, 1859, with reference to above Portrait, No. 30 Philad.\. Feb. 16. 1859, Dear Sir : In the minute examination which was necessary in making a correct copy of your Washington, 1 was the more convinced of the truth of my impression, that it is the first original Por- trait painted by Stuart, in September 1795, at the same time that Washington sat to me. After making five copies of it, Mr. .Stuart sold it to Winstanley the Landscape Painter, who took it to England, and doubtless sold it to Wm. Vaughan, from whose Nephew you bought it. In the Gilmore Collection is an e.xcellent small copy of it by J. House, certified on the back as made from Stuart's first Portrait. I have also seen a fine cop}^ on Ivory by Field. Respectfully yours, (Signed) Rembrandt Peale J. Harrison, Esq. Id )LjIS RtOBBlt 31 Dogs Attacking a Bull (Width, SiJ/ inches; height, 66 inches) J UNKNOWN 32 Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Painted in Paris when F'ranklin was Ambassador to the French Court. Purchased from the late William ^ aughan. Esq., London, a contemporary of Franklin, and always consid- ered l>y him an original portrait. (Width, 25K. inches; height. ,uL’ inches) Carrara Marble Statue — Eve Repentent No. 46 lly Edward S. Bartholniew (Height of Statue and Tedestal. 7 feet, 9 inches) Carrara Marble Bust — Nicholas I Emperor of Russia No. 47 B. K. HAYDEN and SIR JOHN WILKIE 33 Highland Lovers ^ 1 ) 57 inches; height, 72 inches) P. F. ROTHERMEL 34 King Lear, Gloster and Edgar -Cd Gloster. The trick of that voice I do well remember. Is't not the king? Lear. Ay, every inch a king ; When I do stare, see how the subject quakes. Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King- Lear, Act 4, Scene 6. (Width, 87 inches; height, i2S)/< inches) DA\HD AVILKIE, R. A. 35 Scotch Nurse (Width, 8 inches; height, 10 inches) JOHN gUIDOR New York, 1866 Scene at the Village Tavern "Times grow worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony roll on. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keen with use. For a long while he used to console himself when driven from home by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of (he sages and philosophers.” (Width, 34 inches; height, 27 inches) 36 lOHN OUIDOR New York, iS66 Hr'k ay you so,” cried Wilford, half thrusting one leg out of bed ; “why then I think I’ll not make my will yet.” (Width, 34 inches; height. 27 inches) JOHN OUIDOR New York, 1866 38 I Hated Crane at the Bow (Width, 34 inches; height, 27 inches) JOHN OUIDOR 39 The Fright P3d New York. 1866 (tt'idth, 34 inches; height, 27 inches) 101 IN OUIDOR New York. 1866 40 Man on Horse (Width, 34 inches; height, 27 inches) JOHN OUIDOR 41 The Revellers (Width. 34 inches; height, 27 inches) New York. 1866 Carrara Marble Bust — Abraham Lincoln No. 49 By Sarah I'i'^hcr Ames 39 JOHN QUIDOR New York, 1866 42 Rip Van Winkle (Y'idth. 34 inches: height, 27 inches) STATUARY EDWARD S. BARTHOLMEW 46 Eve Repentant "Oh ! poet-heart, that from the senseless marble This dream of beauty and perfection wrought — What shapes divine ! what rare, celestial beauty Tlw soul hath mirrored to conceive this thought ! Through the rich chambers of thy glowing fancy Moved fairer forms, with more of queenly grace ! But thy true genius seized the perfect woman — The first fair mother of an exiled race. No need to tell us here the old-tiiiic story; E’en while we gaze the unbidden tears will start — • The electric truth prisoned within the marble Thrills at a glance the appreciative heart. Fair type of erring womanhood repentant ! Bid the censorious world draw near and tell, When its harsh code condemns thy weaker children, ‘Fresh from the hands of God I sinned and fell.’" From the “Home Journal." (Height of Statue and Pedestal 7 feet 9 inches) •• ;''V .1 ■ f#*; .y'< “H*' .V* 'ifM Carrara Marble Bust — Count D’Estaing By Houdon No. 51 43 47 M 47 Marble Bust of Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia lit of statue and pedestal, “ feet g inches) 48 Italian Marble Pedestal SARAH FISHER AMES 49 Marble Bust of Abraham Lincoln 50 Marble Pedestal HOUHON ^ / 51 Bust of Count d’Estaing 52 Marble Pedestal JOSEPH MOZIER 53 Pocahontas (Heig'ht of statue, s feet 6 indies; heiglit of pedestal, 2 feet) 54 Marble Pedestal Carrara Marble Figure — Pocahontas No. 53 By Joseph Mozier (Height of Statue, 5 feet, 6 inches. Height of Pedestal, 2 feet) 47 D. B. SHEAHAN New York 55 Bust of Joseph Harrison 56 Composition Pedestal NOTE.™ The Statues of EVE and POCAHONTAS will be sold in the Harrison Mansion, No. 221 South i8th Street, Monday Afternoon, February 26th, immediately after sale of Paintings. Carrara Marble Bust of Joseph Harrison By D. R. Sheahan, N. 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