The Estate of Harold R. Boyer JR, Alger Family & Irene Walt Collection-Paintings,Antiques & Jewlery

Lot#2002, C. V. BOND, AMERICAN OIL ON CANVAS, 1853, 40" X 33" PORTRAIT OF CLOTILDE PALMS,Portrait of a seated girl, Clotilde Palms (granddaughter of Joseph Campeau), daughter of Francis Palms and Adelaide Dequindre, who married James Burgess Book. No apparent signature, an oval canvas within an elaborate gilt gesso and wood frame, 52" x 45" overall, Charles V. Bond, b. 1825, Illinois/Michigan. Chs

Lot#2003, ROBERT HOPKIN OIL ON CANVAS H 20", L 30", SHIPS AT LOW TIDE,Robert Hopkin [American, 1832-1909]. Depicting sailing ships on the shore at low tide with figures. Signed lower fight and framed. Hudson's label on verso.

Lot#2004, ROBERT HOPKIN, OIL ON CANVAS H 27" W 22" SEASCAPE,Signed on front, also on reverse "Coming To For a Pilot". Period frame. Size is canvas only.

Lot#2005, FREDERICK STUART CHURCH, OIL PAINTING 1904 H 17" W 22"Signed lower right. Dated 1904. Period frame.

Lot#2006, GARI MELCHERS (AMERICAN 1860-1932), WATERCOLOR & PENCIL, C. 1900, 18" X 10", PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN,Signed and inscribed lower left, "Gari Melchers, to my friend Wm. Aikman", under glass and matted in a gilt wood frame.

Lot#2007, GARI MELCHERS (AMERICAN 1860-1932), OIL ON CANVAS, 1905, H 49", W 36", EDWARD ALGER AGE FOUR.GARI MELCHERS OIL ON CANVAS, EDWARD ALGER AS A YOUNG MAN 1905. Signed lower left. Melchers became a member of the National Academy of Design, New York; the Royal Academy of Berlin; Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris; International Society of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, London, and the Secession Society, Munich; and, besides receiving a number of medals, his decorations include the Legion of Honor, France; the order of the Red Eagle, Germany; and knight of the Order of St Michael, Bavaria. In 1889, he and John Singer Sargent became the first American painters to win a Grand Prize at the Paris Universal Exposition. Edward Alger was the son of Frederick Alger. Frederick Alger, the son of Russell A. Alger, graduated from Harvard in 1899, served as a lieutenant colonel with the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in France during the First World War and was awarded the French Le

Lot#2008, NARCISSE VIRGILE DIAZ DE LA PENA (FRENCH 1808-1876), OIL ON CANVAS, H 23", W 18", NYMPHS IN FOREST.Signed lower left. From the Estate of Harold Boyer, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. By descent from Frederick Alger, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Frederick Alger, the son of Russell A Alger, graduated from Harvard in 1899, served as a lieutenant colonel with the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in France during the First World War and was awarded the French Legion of Honor. His son, Russell A. Alger, Jr., was instrumental in persuading the Packard Motor Car Company to move to Michigan from Ohio; he also built in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a palatial Italian Renaissance style estate, "The Moorings", which was donated in 1949 and became the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, honoring veterans of World War II. (Source Wikipedia).

Lot#2010, WILLIAM WENDT OIL ON BOARD H 10", L 14", SUMMER LANDSCAPE.William Wendt [American, 1865-1946]. The Summer landscape depicts a lake with homes on hills overlooking the lake. Signed lower right and framed. Framed size H 10.75", L 14.75".

Lot#2012, BERNARD DE HOOG (DUTCH 1863-1943), OIL ON CANVAS, H 16", L 20"Mother and child seated by door. Signed lower left. In antiqued gilt wood frame.

Lot#2013, CHARLES E. WALTENSPERGER (AMERICAN 1871-1931), OIL ON CANVAS, H 16", W 20", SHEPHERDESS WITH SHEEP,Signed lower right. Period frame. Size is image only.

Lot#2014, GEORGE HOWELL GAY, OIL ON CANVAS, GLOUCESTER, NEW ENGLAND HARBOR, H 23", W 22"Signed lower right; framed.

Lot#2015, PAUL DE LONGPRE, WATERCOLOR, 26" X 20", FLORAL STILL LIFE.Signed lower left, under glass in a contemporary gilt frame.