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ISAAC SHEFFIELD (1807-1845)
PORTRAIT OF MARY ANN WHEELER
signed, inscribed and dated Isaac Sheffield/ Pinxt March 1835 (reverse)
oil on panel
30 x 24 1/4 in.
Painted in 1835
Provenance
Marion Clarke, a descendant of the sitter, circa 1963
The Beckwith Jordan family, relatives of the sitter’s family
George Considine Antiques, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire, III, Richmond, Virginia
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 30 April 1981, lot 32
Mr. and Mrs. Max R. Zaitz, Princeton, New Jersey
Christie's, New York, 22 January 2016, lot 200
Literature
Edgar deN. Mayhew, "Isaac Sheffield, Connecticut Limner," The Magazine Antiques (November 1963), p. 589, fig. 1.
Richard Woodward, American Folk Painting: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III (Richmond, Virginia, 1977), p. 73, cat. no. 33.
Richard Woodward, "American Folk Painting, The Wiltshire Collection," The Magazine Antiques (September 1978), p. 563, pl. VIII.
Robert Bishop, Folk Painters of America (New York, 1979), p. 38, pl. 37.
Frick Art Reference Library, no. 123-2 a.
Exhibited
Richmond, Virginia, The Virginia Museum, and travelling, American Folk Painting: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III, 29 November 1977-8 January 1978.
New York, The Museum of American Folk Art, Cross Currents: Faces, Figureheads and Scrimshaw Fancies, 26 June-2 September 1984.