Estimate: $25,000 - $40,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: December 6, 2015 2:00:00 PM EDT
Signed, located, and dated 'L.E. Wilmarth/ New York/ Aug 15th 1878' upper left, oil on canvas
16 1/4 x 19 1/8 in. (41.3 x 48.6cm)
Provenance: The Artist.
Gifted by the above to his friend, John C. Ager.
By descent in the family to his great grandchild.
Private Collection, Birmingham, Alabama.
NOTE:
Wilmarth and Ager, to whom the present painting was given as a gift, were friends and fellow scholars in the Swendenborian Church and Community. This work has remained in the same family for over four generations, and has hung in only two homes for 125 years.