Portland, Maine
Best gilding and eglomise panel attributed to Charles Codman. The frame with applied split balusters joining raised corner blocks featuring a gilt pattern; reverse-painted tablet showing a classical woman and child reclined on recamier centered by drapery. The tablet displays Codman’s style and favored colors.
The verso retaining the label of James Todd’s LOOKING-GLASS MANUFACTORY who worked at various addressed in Portland, Maine from 1820 to circa 1866 who was born at Hingham, Massachusetts and was brother of William, a cabinet maker with shops in Boston and Hingham. At the age of 16 James apprenticed to Paul Mondelly, a French-born looking glass maker with a shop in Boston.
One of the early landscape painters, Charles Codman was born in Portland, Maine and lived there for most of his life. He was a self-taught, successful painter of landscapes and marine scenes, primitive portraits, painting and enameling on glass for timepieces, looking glasses, ladies’ needlework and signs. It is believed Codman apprenticed with clockmakers, Simon and Aaron Willard of Roxbury and after that sign-painter, John Ritto Penniman of Roxbury and Boston.
Item Date: Circa 1820-1825
Measurement: 15.75" x 32.25"
Item Condition: Remarkable original condition
Price: $1,450
SKU 1335-67
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