Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000
American Furniture & Decorative Arts
Auction: November 22, 2008 10:00:00 AM EDT
Unsigned, oil on canvas, framed.
H: 35 3/4 in. W: 28 3/4 in. (sight)Provenance: Descended in the family of John Purviance Leigh, Jr. (1800-1865) of Norfolk, Virginia to the present owner.
Little is known of the McCausland family but it is thought that they had ties to Baltimore and Pennsylvania. It is known that Frances P. McCausland married John F. Southgate of Baltimore in 1811 at the First Episcopal Church . They moved to Norfolk, VA where they had five children. Polk painted a companion portrait of Mrs. McCausland and son, that remains in private hands, see. fig. 92, pg 53 in catalog cited below.
Exhibition and Literature:
Charles Peale Polk (1776-1822) A Limner and His Likenesses, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1981. Illustrated and discussed in catalog of same name by Linda Crocker Simmons (1981) Fig. 91, pg. 53.