Lot 819 | GILBERT STUART (1755-1828). PORTRAIT OF JOHN HOLKER, JR. (1745-1822), CIRCA
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1818. Holker came to the United States from France and during the Revolution was involved on behalf of the French Royal Marine and as consul. He was a major financial backer in a partnership with Robert Morris and others from New York and Boston, enabling the "Empress of China" to be the first American ship, sailing from New York in 1784, to reach Canton for trading purposes. Oil on panel. 25 3/8 x 21 inches. Provenance: Anne Maria Mortimer Holker; Hugh Mortimer Nelson; Hugh Mortimer Nelson, Jr.; Prescott F. Huidekoper; Vose Galleries, 1974; Massachusetts Private Collector. Literature: vol. III, 402; "Philadelphia and the China Trade," p. 25; and Philip Chadwick Foster Smith's "The Empress of China," p. 22. Exhibited: following his death in 1828, #206.
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