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CAPTAIN JABEZ HUNTINGTON (1767-1848) signed R. Earl Pinxt./ 1796 (lower left)
oil on canvas reverse of stretcher with hand-written inscription 567/Warner and a label hand-inscribed in ink 567/Warner ---artist RALPH EARL (1751-1801) From the collection of Mimi Alder. Sold for $137,500 at Christie's Important Americana auction January 2022 New York. Photo from Christie's online Auction.
Jabez Huntington son of Brevet Major Jedediah Huntington and Faith Trumbull.
Line of descent::
Faith Trumbull (Huntington) Hooker (1796-1850), Norwich and South Windsor, Connecticut, wife of Edward William Hooker---Faith daughter of Jabez and Mary (Lanman) Huntington.
Faith Huntington (Hooker) Montague (1824-1904), Westport, Connecticut and Newton, Massachusetts, daughter
Elizabeth Hooker (Montague) Claflin (1849-1942), Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, Washington D.C. and Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, daughter
Marguerite Esther (Claflin) Warner (1891-1931), For Atkinson, Wisconsin and Washington D.C.
Harold Ellsworth Warner (1888-1958), New York and Washington D.C., husband
Carleton J. (1910-1981) and Emma Harriet (Bowman) (1917-1996) Phillips, Detroit and Birmingham, Michigan
Hirschl & Adler, New York
Sources:
[Detroit Institute of Arts], American Decorative Arts from the Pilgrims to the Revolution (Detroit, 1967), no. 125 (as "Portrait of an Officer")
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Twenty-Five American Masterpieces (New York, 1968), no. 3 (as “Portrait of a Captain of the Connecticut Militia”).
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Plain and Fancy: A Survey of American Folk Art (New York, 1970), p. 15, no. 9 (part).
James R. Mellow, “A Retrospective at Hirschl & Adler,” New York Times, November 10, 1973, p. 27.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, American Folk Art (New York, 1977), p. 21 (referenced). The Frick Art Reference Library, no. 121-10D. Exhibited
Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Institute of Arts, American Decorative Arts from the Pilgrims to the Revolution, 1967.
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