Auction Date:2010 Jun 16 @ 10:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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LS, one page, 8 x 9.5, February 2, 1819. Jackson writes from Washington to Joseph Delaplaine. In part: “I regret extremely my inability to comply with your request, were it in my power, it would give me much pleasure to serve you; but a pressure of business and a slight indisposition will prevent me from devoting that time to Mr. King which would be necessary for him to take my portrait.” Second integral page bears docketing in another hand as well as an address panel in another hand to Delaplaine in Philadelphia. In very good condition, with intersecting mailing folds, one through a single letter of signature, paper loss along fragile hinge, a few small edge chips, and light scattered toning, soiling, and wrinkling.
The artist to whom Jackson alludes is likely Charles Bird King, a prominent Washington-based painter known for his portraits of politicians and of Native American delegates who visited the nation’s capital between the 1820s and the 1840s. Jackson is known to have sat for King in January 1819, during the general’s trip to Washington to report on his actions in Florida during the First Seminole War; Jackson had become the target of harsh criticism by Speaker of the House Henry Clay, setting up what would become a decades-long conflict between the two men. It appears that King wished to create a second portrait, but “a pressure of business and a slight indisposition” negated such a request, as did the fact that in February, Jackson had also committed to sitting for a portrait with artist Rembrandt Peale in Baltimore.
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