Bidspirit auction | PORTRAIT OF HENRY SEDGWICK BY

PORTRAIT OF HENRY SEDGWICK BY AMMI PHILLIPS (NEW YORK/CONNECTICUT, 1788-1865) - Oil on canvas. Depicting a half-length portrait of a gentleman in a brocade waistcoat, black tie and dark brown coat seated in a red chair. 31” high, 26” wide (sight); in a period frame, 39” high, 34” wide. This painting was purchased from Raymond Murphy of Florence, MA in the early 1950s, and the sitter was identified as Henry Sedgwick (1830-1916), an early banker in Lenox, Massachusetts. The painting was exhibited at the Lenox Library Association for the Lenox bicentennial celebration in 1967. This portrait is illustrated in Allaway, My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips, v. 1, p. 166, and v. 2, p. 95. Condition: Good; conserved, including lining and scattered inpainting