STAIR
Live Auction

Friday Night Sales at Stair

Fri, May 17, 2019 06:00PM EDT
Lot 1520

Attributed to Ezra Ames (1768-1836): Portrait Said to be Mrs.Thomas Chester

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
Sold for

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$200 $50
$500 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000

Oil on canvas, unsigned, lined, with label from Room 5600 Rockefeller Plaza, NY.

29 x 23 1/2 in., 39 x 35 in. (frame).

Note: Mrs. Thomas Chester, born Esther Margaret Bull, 1779 in Hartford, CT, was the great-great-great grandmother of William Kelly Simpson.

Estate of Helen Porter Simpson; thence by decent.

Property from the Estate of William Kelly Simpson

Condition

Lined. Craquelure with areas of inpainting showing mostly in the blank. Some small scattered areas of inpainting around the face. Surface Soiling.