Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2535BLocation: BostonDate / Time: January 28, 2011 12:00PM
Description:
Frank Henry Shapleigh (American, 1842-1906)
Dr. Pack's Palm Trees, St. Augustine, Fla.
Signed and dated "F.H. Shapleigh 1889." l.l., titled and signed "...by F.H.
Shapleigh." on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 16 x 10 in. (40.6 x 25.4 cm),stretched with Boston tabs, in a period frame.
Condition: Surface grime.
Provenance: Richard Rich, Malden and Orleans, Massachusetts; then by descent to his only son, Richard Rich Jr., Malden and Orleans, Massachusetts; private collection, Orleans, Massachusetts.
Estimate $20,000-30,000