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Monotone watercolor profile on paper by J.H. Gillespie. Gillespie
painted beautiful watercolor silhouettes in shades of dark grey with
details added in black and also full color watercolor portraits on
ivory. He is known also for his unique style of watercolor
portraits such as this which he advertised as "LIKENESSES, with the
features neatly shaded on Black Grounds, in imitation of Copper Plate
Busts, at 5s. each." Gillespie started working as an itinerant artist in England, possibly as early as 1793. He crossed the ocean to Nova Scotia in 1829 and is known to have been working in Baltimore by 1837, then Philadelphia, New York and possibly more of the Eastern seaboard. This beautiful profile exemplifies his beautiful and sensitive work. (#3255) $1450 Payne, Suzanne Rudnick and Payne, Michael R., "Six Choices for the Sitter, James H. Gillespie (1793-after 1849)", Antiques & Fine Art, 200 (Summer/Autumn 2008) (online article at antiquesandfineart.com). See the Silhouettist Biographies page for more information on this artist. Please also visit the Gillespie Man we have on our Silhouettes page. (He's published in the Payne article.) |
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