Lot 29
Gilbert Stuart(1755-1828)David Low 27 1/4 x 22 1/4in
19 November 2018, 16:00 EST
New YorkSold for US$12,500 inc. premium
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Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
David Low
oil on canvas
27 1/4 x 22 1/4in
Painted in 1824.
oil on canvas
27 1/4 x 22 1/4in
Painted in 1824.
Footnotes
Provenance
The sitter.
Mrs. David Low (Mary Haswell Langdon), by descent from the above, 1876.
Mrs. Charles Frederick Heywood (Mary Elizabeth Low), New York, daughter of the above, by descent.
Mrs. Charles Frederick Roper, Esquire (Mary Orient Heywood), Pelham Manor, New York, daughter of the above, by descent.
Mr. Langdon Heywood Roper, Stamford, Connecticut, and New York, son of the above, by descent.
Mrs. Henry Heywood Fox (Elizabeth Gorham Roper), Pelham Manor, New York, sister of the above, by descent, circa 1968.
Mr. Heywood Fox, New Canaan, Connecticut, son of the above, by descent.
Mr. Henry Heywood Fox, Hilton Head, South Carolina, son of the above, by descent.
By descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Athenaeum, An Exhibition of Portraits Painted by the Late Gilbert Stuart, Esq., 1828, p. 7, no. 178 (as David Low, Esq.).
Literature
L. Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. 1, New York, pp. 490-91, no. 508.
The sitter is David Low, son of David and Elizabeth (Rogers) Low, of Gloucester, Massachusetts. In his early life he was a ship-master and the present lot will be offered alongside his sailor's ledger, dating from 1815, and titled in his hand, A Journal of a Passage From Boston towards Amsterdam on Board Brig Hope. Later in life while residing in Boston, Massachusetts, he became a banker, representing Stieglitz Brothers of St. Petersburg, Russia.