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Photography of the West: D.F. Barry, Huffman, & Antique Beadwork - January 2025

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Join us for our Photography of the West: D.F. Barry, Huffman & Antique Beadwork—January 18th, 2025 Auction here in Bozeman, Montana. Including 100's of images from the ex-C.M. Russell Museum collection of D.F. Barry Photographs as well as a large Western Antique and Beadwork collection.
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Lot 502

Addison Thomas Millar (1860-1913) Portrait Oil

Estimate: $300 - $400
Starting Bid
$100

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This is a work of art attributed to Addison Thomas Millar (1860-1913), being an original oil on stretched canvas. The work is a portrait of man, possibly a self portrait of Addison Thomas Millar himself. The work was noted by Henry Sjaardema in 1969 as being signed A.T. Millar circa 1880 being Addison Thomas 1860-1913 N.Y., N.Y.. The work was restored and preserved being stretched onto a mid-20th-century frame, remnants of the Millar signature, in his correct style are scene lower right. Addison Thomas Millar was born to emigrate father William H. Millar of Scotland and Permelia Kennedy Millar in 1860. Early in his life he took painting lessons from John Bell (1846-1895) and later after winning young artist awards took formal lessons from genre painter, De Scott Evans in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attend the Art Students League in 1883 New York City as well as Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art with William Merritt Chase and in 1894 in Paris he studied at the Academie Julian with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Giovanni Boldini. He an his wife were tragically killed when an express train ran into their car in South Norwalk, Connecticut. His works are held by the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Public Library, the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and featured by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Library of Congress and the Rhode Island School of Design. During Mike and Karen Pence’s tenure at the United States Vice-President’s Residence, the couple added several pieces of Millar’s art to the home from the Smithsonian’s archives. Provenance: From the Henry and Jean Sjaardema Art Collection. The work is reminiscent of 17th and 18th Century Dutch School and Dutch Master’s portraits such as “Portrait of a Gentleman in Black”. There is loss to the outside edge, right edge is folded around the frame, some loss to the paint itself, bottom edge showing loss especially at the signature, some noted spots on the right outlined n slight white. The back has been preserved. The piece measures 23 1/2" L x 18 5/8" W x 3/4" D and weighs 1 pound and 4 ounces.

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