240. OIL PAINTING OF GEN. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN BEFORE ATLANTA,

Auction: 2006, Spring Americana, May 10, 11 & 12

Price Realized: $4,500.00

this painting is a copy of an original by N.H. Trotter and is based on a photograph by George Barnard and issued as a stereoview during the war as part of Anthony's Photographic History of the War for the Union. The image shows Sherman astride his Kentucky thoroughbred Lexington taken shortly after the evacuation of Atlanta. Sherman is looking north from the inner ring of the city's abandoned field fortifications; close by is a captured Confederate 12 lb. Napoleon cannon. Painting is on Masonite and signed lower left N.H. Trotter, Phila. Pa. and with pasted Ms label on reverse that reads #DRD Gen. Wm. T. Sherman and his favorite horse DUKE at the captured Rebel battery-Atlanta-Geo. in 1864 Painted by N.H. Trotter, Phila. Pa. 1880, 20" x 24", in original frame, 22" x 26". This painting is accompanied by a TLS from the law offices of Taft & Sherman, N.Y., dated Oct. 5, 1933, written to Arthur H. Sherman by P.T. Sherman and reads in part it is a historical painting which was made under my father's direction and you may be interested to have it. Interestingly P.T. also misidentifies the horse, only this time as Sam, another of Sherman's favorites. It would appear that P.T. Sherman had a copy made of the original in the 1930s and sent to a relative in California.

Newbold H. Trotter (1827-98) turned to painting as a full time occupation in 1867. He had been in business in Philadelphia and served in the Germantown Home Guards during the Civil War. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design and the Boston Athenaeum.

VG+.

(EST $3500-$4500)

Price Realized: $4,500.00

Price includes buyer's premium.