Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790)
A Pair of Portraits of The Reverend and Mrs. Quackenbush
oil on canvas
24 x 18 in. (each)
Painted circa 1785
Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790)
A Pair of Portraits of The Reverend and Mrs. Quackenbush
oil on canvas
24 x 18 in. (each)
Painted circa 1785
Steven Van Pelt Quackenbush (1889-1973), Scranton, Pennsylvania, descendant of the sitters Private collection, New York Israel Sack, Inc., New York, c.1955 Hirschl & Adler Galleries with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1970 John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, New York, 1970-1993 Acquired from the above by the present owner
E. P. Richardson, American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd (San Francisco, 1976), pp. 50-53, nos. 15, 16. Marc Simpson, The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (San Francisco, 1994), pp. 78-79, nos. 16, 17.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., American Primitive Exhibition, 1969 (nos. 19, 20 in accompanying catalogue). New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Plain and Fancy: A Survey of American Folk Art, 30 April - 23 May 1970 (nos. 7, 8 in accompanying catalogue). San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, 17 April - 31 July 1976 (San Francisco) and 16 September - 7 November 1976 (New York). San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 25 June - 13 November 1994.