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Portrait of General Robert E. Lee Signed J.K. Harley 1871
Lot 612

Portrait of General Robert E. Lee Signed J.K. Harley 1871

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James Kimball Harley (Maryland, 1828-1889) oil on canvas portrait of Civil War General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870). Signed J.K. Hartley in red, lower left, with date 1872. In original ornately carved giltwood and composition frame with oval aperture. Sight - 32"h x 26"W. Frame - 43"H x 35"W. Affixed en verso is the engraved card of Mrs. Harry Woollcott, 116 South 4th St., Wilmington, North Carolina. Woolcotts are known to have exhibited a portrait collection at the Florence Museum ( April, June 1954). Mr. Harry Woollcott was secretary and purchasing agent of the Tidewater Power Co. of Wilmington, N.C. Other portraits by Harley are held by the Annapolis Complex Collection, Maryland State archives (Portrait of Thomas Holliday Hicks (1798-1865), Governor of MD. 1858-62). Baltimore Museum of Art has a self portrait of Harley dated 1850.

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Lined. Inpainting to eye/cheek and forehead area, and to center chest area. Repair to top center background. Scattered craquelure. 

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Provenance: Mrs. Harry Woollcott, Wilmington, N. C.; Louis Dianni Auctions, 2014, to present consignor (private Virginia collection). 

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