Paintings Worth Looking At

The possibly-Peckham Interior Scene sold today at Eldred's for $13,000, estimated $3-5,000! I did not bid. Many thanks again for the opportunity to research and write on it. (I do hope to eventually find out where it ended up!) Should anyone else be interested in a lot essay, or a research inquiry of any sort, I can always be found at emilyesser1@gmail.com .

Recently, I had the privilege of contributing a lot essay for Eldred's upcoming Americana Week. I'd written in with a correction about a portrait once attributed to Deacon Robert Peckham, which was received and amended with exemplary grace. Several emails later, I found myself looking through the auction catalogue, and spotted a piece with a suspiciously familiar composition: this Interior Scene . Its likeness to Peckham-Sawyer Family (1817) is hard to miss.