$30,550
Zedekiah Belknap (New England, 1781-1858) Child in White with Doll. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 26 x 23 1/2 in., in a period gold leaf frame. Condition: Lined, retouched, craquelure. Provenance: Gerald Kornblau, New York; Gregory Reynolds, Vermont; Skinner Americana sale 1274, lot 523, to a private Boston Collection. Exhibition History: The New York Historical Society, "A Child's World" 1980, and "Small Folk: A Celebration of Childhood in America," December-February 1981 N.B. Zedekiah Belknap was born in what is now Auburn, Massachusetts. Subsequent to his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1807 he became a portrait painter working throughout Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. His style changed considerably in the forty-one years he was known to have painted. He ended his painting career in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1848.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2002-06-09
