Live Auction 21026Important Americana
WILLIAM JENNYS (1755-1840)
Lot 516 Property of a Baltimore Family

WILLIAM JENNYS (1755-1840)

MISS FANNY HOYT (1793-1864)

Closed20 January 2023

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WILLIAM JENNYS (1755-1840)
MISS FANNY HOYT (1793-1864)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in.

William Sparks, New York
David David, Inc., Philadelphia
Dr. C.L. Pierson, Trenton, New Jersey, 3 February 1968
Irvin and Anita Schorsch, Hidden Glen Farms
Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 2016, lot 976

Specialist note

Fanny Hoyt (1793-1864) was the daughter of Nathan Hoyt (1751-1825) and Elizabeth Goodwin Hoyt (1752-1812) of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Jennys painted portraits of Fanny and her parents, as well as their three other daughters which can be seen in David David, Inc., advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (September 1967), p. 255.