ULKE HENRY Portrait of Louis Agassiz

Sale 2324 - Lot 328

Price Realized: $ 7,020

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

ULKE, HENRY. Portrait of Louis Agassiz. Oil painting, 30 x 25 inches, mounted on original stretchers; moderate wear at edges, one-inch puncture in lower right, indentation in upper left, other small scuffs and wear; incorrect label by Ulke's son on stretcher verso, signed "Hy. Ulke 1876" at lower left. [Washington], 1876

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Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a Swiss-American naturalist who taught for many years at Harvard University. He was one of the best-known scientists of his era. The United States Capitol acquired an Agassiz portrait from Ulke in 1877; the present portrait was apparently a duplicate Ulke kept for his own collection. with--a carte-de-visite photograph of Agassiz (misidentified by a later family member in the caption), apparently used as the reference for this posthumous portrait, bearing the 1876 backstamp of the artist's brother Julius Ulke.