Auction: Discovery - 2392Location: BoltonDate / Time: December 14, 2007 10:00AM
Description:
Albert Gallatin Hoit (American, 1809-1856)Portrait of Pietro Bachi (aka Ignasio Batolo) Unsigned, "From / J.J. Adams / 99 Washington St. / Boston" canvas stencil on the reverse, oil on canvas, framed.
Condition: Some inpainting.
N.B. The sitter (b. 1801, Palermo, Italy; d. 1853, Boston, MA) was a professor of foreign languages at Harvard University, ca. 1827. The work is purportedly illustrated in With faithfulness and quiet dignity : Albert Gallatin Hoit 1809-1856 , by Patricia L. Heard, New Hampshire Historical Society, 1984, Concord, NH, pg. 30. Copy of Catalog of American Portraits, National Portrait Gallery object ID accompanies the lot.
Estimate $600-800
Keywords
Albert Gallatin Hoit, Pietro Bachi, oil, Palermo, Italy, Harvard University, professor of foreign languages, New Hampshire, Patricia L. Heard, New Hampshire Historical Society, National Portrait Gallery