Sold for:
$1,778
$1,778
Oil Portrait of Anna Henshaw, Leicester, Massachusetts, painted by Alvan Clark, Boston, 1841, in a gilded frame with extensive period provenance on the reverse reading in part, This Portrait of Anna Henshaw of Henshaw Place, Leicester, Massachusetts, daughter of the late David Henshaw and Mary Sargent Henshaw was born in Leicester 14th of February, 1772... painted by Alvan Clark, Boston, December 1841... , ht. 30, wd. 24 1/2 in. (sight). While Alvan Clark (1804-1887) is primarily remembered as an important maker of telescope optics, he was also an accomplished artist working in Boston. This painting remains as a documented example of his portraiture.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-11-20
