Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), Portrait of Elmira Fiske (1823-1895), dated “1828”

Inscribed on verso, “Elmira Fiske Painted by Rembrandt Peale, For Mrs. Elmira Adams. Boston, 1828,” oil on panel, framed.

19 ¼ in. x 14 ¼ in. (sight)

Provenance

The Estate of a Collector, Pennsylvania.

Footnotes

Elmira Fiske was the daughter of Horatio Hancock Fiske (1790-1829) and Letitia Whittemore (1799-1891), a prominent couple of Arlington, Massachusetts. Elmira Fiske Adams (1792-1854) was the sitter's aunt and namesake. Elmira's grandfather, the Rev. Thaddeus Fiske (1762-1855), was a noted minister in the Cambridge-Arlington-Lexington area and lived for years in the historic Hancock-Clarke House. Elmira Fiske married George Benjamin Neal in 1850, and the couple resided in Cambridge. A number of personal and household items from the Fiske family are in the collection of the The Arlington Historical Society.

lot 82: selectively cleaned, background fluoresces green; with crazing to surface, some areas have been retouched above head and to either side of face / hair; some minor spots of retouching to hair and left-facing eye; frame is later