Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2329Location: BostonDate / Time: September 15, 2006 12:00PM
Description:
Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819-1904)
Mary Queen of Scots
c. 1863.
Signed and inscribed "Copied by M. J. Heade" l.l., indistinctly
inscribed, probably in the artist's hand, on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm),framed.
Condition: Lined, retouch, varnish inconsistencies, craquelure.
Exhibition: Northwestern Fair, Chicago, October 27, 1863, no. 284.
Literature: Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) p. 209, entry 50.
Estimate $4,000-6,000