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Lot 715
George III indenture, 30th September 1806, relating to Sir Isaac Heard, Knight Garter, Principal King of Arms, and George Harrison, Esquire, Clarenceux King of Arms of the South East and West parts of England, giving and granting Langley Gravenor of Alfoxton, Somerset, eldest son of St Albyn Gravenor, permission for him and his wife to take and use the surname and bear the arms of St Albyn, only in compliance with an injunction contained in the last will and testament of his Great Uncle Lancelot St Albyn,
Lot 148
Two Art Deco Silvered-Bronze Polar Bear Table Lamps, c. 1925, by Thomas François Cartier (French, 1879-1943), both with "Fabricator Française" foundry mark, one signed "T. Cartier", modeled as polar bears playing with iceberg-form shades, plinth base, largest height 12 in., width 13 in., depth 6 1/4 in.
Lot 336
American School, late 19th c., "Portrait of Alexander Hamilton", after John Trumbull (1756-1843), oil on canvas, unsigned, 36 in. x 24 in., framed. Note: This painting is after John Trumbull`s famous posthumous 1805 "Portrait of Alexander Hamilton" (72 in. x 52 1/2 in.) now conserved in the New York City Hall Collection. In 1880, the U.S. Treasury Department commissioned a copy of the painting to be made by Caroline Ormes Ransom (1826- 1910), a student of Asher B. Durand. The portrait of Hamilton on the $10 note was later printed after Ransom`s copy. Two other Hamilton portraits by Trumbull, which bear a close resemblance to the one auctioned here, were painted in 1791 and 1806. The former can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (through joint ownership) and the latter at the Washington University Law School in St. Louis, MO. References: ARTstor; Oxford Dictionary of Art; "Alexander Hamilton (1789-1795)", U.S. Department Of Treasury. Web. 17 Oct. 2013; Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin (Curator of Paintings at the Metropolitan), John Trumbull`s Portrait of Alexander Hamilton", The Magazine Antiques, 9 Sept. 2013. Web. 17 Oct. 2013.
Lot 1163
Clarence Millet, A.N.A. (American/Louisiana, 1897-1959), "A Lower Manhattan Street Corner in the Rain", 1922/1924, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, 12 in. x 16 in., period coved frame of Modernist design. Note: A native of Hahnville, Millet came to New Orleans in 1917 to work with Robert Grafton and Louis Oscar Griffith, who were painting their celebrated murals in the lobby of the St. Charles Hotel. From 1922 to 1924 Millet studied at the Art Students` League in New York City, before returning in the latter year to New Orleans, where he worked for the rest of his life. The combination of these facts, with the Gimbels Department Store stencil on the reverse of this canvas board, very strongly supports the hypothesis that this bold and innovative painting was executed in New York during those formative years. Indeed the depicted cityscape seems to bear this out, with the broad "avenue" at left intersected by a typically narrower "side street" in the foreground. The unassuming commercial scene itself appears to fit this interpretation: the size and character of the buildings, their awnings and signage, the flickering images of fast-moving traffic, with a few rain-lashed pedestrians under a lurid night sky, all suggest the strong effect on this 26-year-old artist of the bombshell of European Expressionism, which had burst on the American scene through New York`s notorious Armory Show of 1913, just ten years before. Reference: Estill Curtis Pennington, Downriver: Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting, 1800-1950, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1990/91, pp. 169-174.
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