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Franco-Colombus Fenwick

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Marie-Geneviève Favart: Franco-Colombus Fenwick   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Attributed to Marie-Geneviève Favart    wikidata:Q107439625
 
Description French painter, pastellist and miniature painter
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q107439625,P5102,Q230768
Title
Franco-Colombus Fenwick
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
Français : Portrait de Franco-Columbus Fenwick, né le 22 novembre 1793, fils de Joseph Fenwick (1762-1849), premier consul des États-Unis à Bordeaux (1790-1801). L'enfant, âgé environ d'une dizaine d'années, est représenté en pied, appuyé contre un arbre, tenant une boule de quilles de neuf à la main.
English: Franco-Colombus Fenwick 's Portrait

Monogrammed on the left in the center of the tree EFBears an inscription in ink on the stretcher Franco Colombus / Fenwick né le 22 / Novembre année 1793 / Peint par Favart.

Joseph Fenwick (1762-1849) was Franco-Colombus' father. He came from a Catholic family in Maryland. He settled in Bordeaux in 1787 where he made a fortune as a wine merchant, before becoming the first consul of the United States. He was appointed to this position by George Washington in 1790, which he held until 1801 in Bordeaux, where the hôtel Fenwick (the first United States consulate ever created) remains today. In 1792, he married a French, Catherine Eléonore Ménoire, and their only son Franco-Columbus, born in 1793, also became a consul for the United States in Nantes. Here, Franco-Columbus is represented aged about ten, after finishing a game of "quille de neuf". The attribution to Favart rests more upon the inscription on the back and on the old plate on the frame than on the monogram EF carved on the tree (the E could refer to another first name or surname of the artist).
Date between circa 1800 and circa 1805
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1805-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 177 x 130 cm. (69.7 x 51.2 in.)
Object history
  • Fenwick's heirs;
  • By whom sold to private owners.
  • By whom sold Paris, Sotheby's, 26 June 2019, lot 133, sold for 37,500 EUR
Source/Photographer Sotheby's

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