JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 23 July 2024 - 10:00 AM start

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Jean-Léon Gérôme Ferris (1863-1930), The Abduction of Pocahontas, oil on canvas,

Realised: $1,600 plus premium

Lot Details

a romanticized view, signed G Ferris, circa 1900. 440 x 645mm. An early twentieth-century oil painting by Philadelphia artist Jean-Léon Gérôme Ferris presents a dramatic scene of the arrival of Pocahontas, daughter of Indian paramount chief Powhatan, in Jamestown following her abduction by Samuel Argall in April 1613. Ferris studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in Paris, and he specialized in re-creating scenes from American history—painting around seventy such canvases—and selling reproductions of them for use in calendars, magazines, and other commercial ventures. In 1900 he began his series of paintings on American history; in 1917 a special gallery was built in the Museum of Independence Hall to house a collection of his canvases. Provenance: The collection of John and Valerie Robertson, Auckland. Purchased Dunbar Sloane Auctions 2001.