Lot 236 | WILLIAM H. RINEHART (1825-1874)
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A White Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman signed "Wm. RINEHART SCULPT. 1874" 27 in. (68.6 cm.) high, including socle PROVENANCE Private Collection, New York LITERATURE M.C. Ross and A.W. Rutledge, A Catalogue of the Works of William Henry Rinehardt, Maryland Sculptor, 1825-1874, Baltimore, 1948 Rinehart, one of the Americans working primarly in Italy during the mid-19th Century, was patronized by William T. Walters, founder of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. He earned a handsome living from sculpting the aristocratic Americans on "Grand Tour" and during his visits back to the United States. The catalogue of Rinehart's oeuvre lists several unlocated portrait commissions. The present portrait, dated the year of his death, bears a resemblence to the portrait of the same year of Mrs. Anna Dilke Riddle Scott sold in these Rooms, December 2, 1977 (lot 28).
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