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Lot 35

Thomas C. Corner
(1865-1938)
Portrait of Henry Clay Frick 24 x 20in

22 May 2019, 16:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$2,550 inc. premium

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Thomas C. Corner (1865-1938)

Portrait of Henry Clay Frick
signed 'Thm. C Corner' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 x 20in

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Provenance
Private collection, Rochester, New York.
Sale, Rochester Museum of Science, Rochester, New York, Annual Fundraising Sale.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above.

Thomas Cromwell Corner worked as a successful portraitist over a career spanning 50 years. Corner was from Baltimore, Maryland and trained at the Maryland Institute, the Art Students League in New York and the Académie Julian in Paris. In the present work he depicts the American industrialist and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919). Frick was a significant patron of the arts and donated his collection to establish the museums bearing his name in both New York and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His collection of art and furniture is housed in the Henry Clay Frick House in the Upper Eastside neighborhood of New York, as well as in The Frick Pittsburgh, in the Fricks' Italianite mansion known as Clayton.

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