Live Auction 2058Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
Lot 56 Property of the Corcoran Gallery of Art sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund*

Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)

John Stevens Ellery

Closed4 December 2008

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Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
John Stevens Ellery
oil on panel
26¼ x 21½ in. (66.7 x 54.6 cm.)
Painted in 1810.

Sarah Stevens, sister of the sitter, Boston, Massachusetts.
Ignatius Sargent, son of the above, Brookline, Massachusetts, by bequest of the above.
Professor Charles Sprague Sargent, son of the above, Brookline, Massachusetts, by bequest of the above.
Miss Alice Sargent.
Ignatius Sargent, Washington, D.C., by 1935.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1980.

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*This lot may be exempt from sales tax as set forth in the Sales Tax Notice in the back of the catalogue.

John Stevens Ellery was a French merchant who accumulated a large fortune while living in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts before moving to New York. The present work was painted for the sitter's sister, Sarah Stevens, who was the wife of Major Ignatius Sargent of Boston.