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Painter, b. 1858 - d. 1926
Massachusetts, best known for his portrait, genre and sea-lanscape paintings.
Memberships/Museum Representation: Guild of Boston Artists; the Copley Society; the Saint Botolph Club and the Boston Art Club; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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soldJun. 17, 2023WILLIAM W. CHURCHILL, WOMAN WITH TEAPOT, 1910 OIL
Est: $2,000 - $4,000William Worcester Churchill (American / Massachusetts 1858-1926), "Portrait of Lady with Pitcher", 1910, oil on canvas depicting a profile portrait of a seated blonde female hold a small ceramic pitcher, signed and dated at upper left, framed. Provenance: Collection of Susan Levitt Barkoff, by descent from Dr. Irving Levitt, Michigan and New York. Note: Ahlers & Ogletree is proud to present a selection of works from the collection of Ms. Susan Levitt Barkoff, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Irving Levitt of Detroit and New York. Dr. & Mrs. Levitt's estate was partially sold at Christie's New York with a selection of works descending to their three children. The Levitt's collection included works by Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, Theodore Robinson, John Frederick Peto, and others. During their lifetimes, the Levitts were associated with such organizations as the Detroit Institute of Arts, where Dr. Levitt served on the museum's collections committee and as first president of the Institute's "Friends of the American Wing"; and Kennedy Galleries in Manhattan where Dr. Levitt worked in the 1970's. Mrs. Levitt additionally helped develop the Detroit museum's Kresge Court. Approximate dimensions: canvas h. 27", w. 22"; frame h. 38.25", w. 33.25", total d. 2.5" (w/ canvas)
Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.
soldMar. 10, 2021Oil on Canvas, W.W. Churchill, Portrait of Boys
Est: $5,000 - $10,000William Worcester Churchill (Massachusetts 1858-1926). Signed and dated, ll, " W W Churchill, Boston 1890". Of impressive size, a portrait of two of the six Potter children of 29 Fairfield, Back Bay Boston. Thought to be Sheldon Potter, b. in Cohasset, Sept. 29, 1882 and his brother, Adelbert Niles Potter born in Boston, Jan. 1, 1886. 64"h x 46"w. Within it's original carved frame depicting oak leaves, acorns and ribbons. 76"h x 60"w Small loss of paint. Frame with losses.
Nye & Company
soldJan. 28, 2021WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL (Massachusetts/Washington, D.C., 1858-1926), Seated nude., Oil on canvas, 24" x 20". Framed 30" x 24".
Est: $1,000 - $2,000WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL Massachusetts/Washington, D.C., 1858-1926 Seated nude. Inscribed in pencil in a later hand verso "William W.W. Churchill". Provenance:Barridoff Galleries, August 4, 2006, Lot #166.Private Collection, Virginia.Private Collection, Massachusetts. Exhibited: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia: "Portraits from the Boston School", January 25 to April 20, 2014. Oil on canvas, 24" x 20". Framed 30" x 24".
Eldred's
soldJan. 20, 2021Oil on Canvas, W.W. Churchill, Two 19th C. Boys
Est: $10,000 - $20,000William Worcester Churchill (Massachusetts 1858-1926). Signed and dated, ll, " W W Churchill, Boston 1890". Of impressive size, a portrait of two of the six Potter children of 29 Fairfield, Back Bay Boston. Known to be Sheldon Potter, b. in Cohasset, Sept. 29, 1882 and his brother Adelbert Niles Potter b. in Boston, Jan. 1, 1886. 64"h x 46"w. Within it's original carved frame depicting oak leaves, acorns and ribbons. 76"h x 60"w Small loss of paint.
Nye & Company
soldAug. 24, 2019WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL, JR. (MA/DC, 1858-1926)
Est: $3,000 - $4,500WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL, JR. (MA/DC, 1858-1926) "The Black and Gold Fan" (Portrait of Edith Mabel Edwards Safford), signed upper right and dated 1900, housed in a magnificent carved gilt matched corner frame, OS: 43 1/2" x 37 1/2", SS: 31 1/2" x 25 1/2". Cleaned and relined. Includes the bodice she was wearing, framed in a shadowbox under glass. Edith was the wife of Nathaniel Morton Safford, of Milton, Massachusetts, an attorney and member of a prominent New England whaling family. (His mother was Josephine Eugenia, daughter of Joseph (a descendant of George Morton, who arrived at Plymouth in 1623). Edith was twenty-four years old when she sat for the portrait. Exhibited in 1906 at the Twentieth Century Club, catalog no. 5; ex-Dolores Kritzer Collection, Culpeper, Virginia; New England Gallery, Andover, Mass.
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
soldJun. 02, 2019WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL, JR. (MA/DC, 1858-1926)
Est: $3,000 - $4,500WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL, JR. (MA/DC, 1858-1926) "The Black and Gold Fan" (Portrait of Edith Mabel Edwards Safford), signed upper right and dated 1900, housed in a magnificent carved gilt matched corner frame, OS: 43 1/2" x 37 1/2", SS: 31 1/2" x 25 1/2". Cleaned and relined. Includes the bodice she was wearing, framed in a shadowbox under glass. Edith was the wife of Nathaniel Morton Safford, of Milton, Massachusetts, an attorney and member of a prominent New England whaling family. (His mother was Josephine Eugenia, daughter of Joseph (a descendant of George Morton, who arrived at Plymouth in 1623). Edith was twenty-four years old when she sat for the portrait. Provenance: Exhibited in 1906 at the Twentieth Century Club, catalog no. 5; ex-Dolores Kritzer Collection, Culpepeer, Virginia; New England Gallery, Andover, Mass.
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
soldDec. 09, 2017WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL (American, 1858-1926) OIL ON CANVAS. Portrait of Susan Carberry Wharton, who was the wife of William Fisher Wharton (acting Sec. of State under President Benjamin Harrison). William W. Churchill, Boston, M.F.A. 1st class,
Est: $3,000 - $6,000WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL (American, 1858-1926) OIL ON CANVAS. Portrait of Susan Carberry Wharton, who was the wife of William Fisher Wharton (acting Sec. of State under President Benjamin Harrison). William W. Churchill, Boston, M.F.A. 1st class, 1877. Frame: 56''h x 43''w, signed lower right and dated 1905. Visual art: 44''h x 31''w.
Dargate Auction Galleries
soldAug. 24, 2016WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL (American, 1858-1926) WOMAN AT PIANO.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000Oil on canvas. Housed in a wonderful, carved and gilt wide frame, carved/signed "W F Scott" (Will Scott). Also carved "C.1980". Unsigned SIZE: 25" x 30". Overall: 33" x 38" CONDITION: Very good. Minor inpainting. 50805-5
James D. Julia
soldApr. 28, 2016William W. Churchill: Antique Boston School Portrait Of A Woman
Est: $4,500 - $6,500William Worcester Churchill (American, 1858-1926): Portrait of a Woman, oil on canvas, signed his stylized monogram "wwC". The Boston School artists produced portraits which are immediately recognizable due to their subtle warm coloration, refined brush work and strong, moody light. Often, as with this canvas, the light is from the back or side, leaving the main face in shadow. The artist is William Worcester Churchill, and the canvas bears his stylized monogram "wwC" Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts in 1858, Churchill's formal art training began in 1877 when he enrolled in the inaugural class of the Boston Art Museum School of Drawing and Painting. His teacher there was the German artist Emil Otto Grundmann, an educator of profound skill who produced such students as Edmund Tarbell, Robert Reid, and Frank Weston Benson. After studying with Grundmann for some time, Churchill travelled overseas to Paris, where, beginning in 1878, he studied under Leon Bonnat for two years. While still in Paris, Churchill also took lessons from his fellow-Bostonian Tarbell, who was himself in France studying at the Academie Julian. An outbreak of cholera in 1885 influenced many American artists to leave Paris and return home, and once back in Massachusetts, Churchill resumed his training under Tarbell, with whom he remained until 1888.
Woodshed Gallery
soldJan. 29, 2016William W. Churchill: Antique Boston School Portrait Of A Woman
Est: $4,500 - $6,500The Boston School artists produced portraits which are immediately recognizable due to their subtle warm coloration, refined brush work and strong, moody light. Often, as with this canvas, the light is from the back or side, leaving the main face in shadow. The artist is William Worcester Churchill, and the canvas bears his stylized monogram "wwC" Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts in 1858, Churchill's formal art training began in 1877 when he enrolled in the inaugural class of the Boston Art Museum School of Drawing and Painting. His teacher there was the German artist Emil Otto Grundmann, an educator of profound skill who produced such students as Edmund Tarbell, Robert Reid, and Frank Weston Benson. After studying with Grundmann for some time, Churchill travelled overseas to Paris, where, beginning in 1878, he studied under L?on Bonnat for two years. While still in Paris, Churchill also took lessons from his fellow-Bostonian Tarbell, who was himself in France studying at the Acad?mie Julian. An outbreak of cholera in 1885 influenced many American artists to leave Paris and return home, and once back in Massachusetts, Churchill resumed his training under Tarbell, with whom he remained until 1888. The painting is on a 20"x16" stretched canvas, and dates from around 1900/1910. The new gold-metal leafed wood frame was custom made in our studio. Frame size is 22" x 22" x 1.5" The painting has been lightly cleaned and lined onto a new canvas to strengthen it. It has a new coating of non-yellowing varnish. The frame has a protective backing board.
Woodshed Gallery
soldDec. 28, 2015William W. Churchill: Antique Boston School Portrait Of A Woman
Est: $4,500 - $6,500The Boston School artists produced portraits which are immediately recognizable due to their subtle warm coloration, refined brush work and strong, moody light. Often, as with this canvas, the light is from the back or side, leaving the main face in shadow. The artist is William Worcester Churchill, and the canvas bears his stylized monogram "wwC" Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts in 1858, Churchill's formal art training began in 1877 when he enrolled in the inaugural class of the Boston Art Museum School of Drawing and Painting. His teacher there was the German artist Emil Otto Grundmann, an educator of profound skill who produced such students as Edmund Tarbell, Robert Reid, and Frank Weston Benson. After studying with Grundmann for some time, Churchill travelled overseas to Paris, where, beginning in 1878, he studied under Léon Bonnat for two years. While still in Paris, Churchill also took lessons from his fellow-Bostonian Tarbell, who was himself in France studying at the Académie Julian. An outbreak of cholera in 1885 influenced many American artists to leave Paris and return home, and once back in Massachusetts, Churchill resumed his training under Tarbell, with whom he remained until 1888. The painting is on a 20"x16" stretched canvas, and dates from around 1900/1910. The new gold-metal leafed wood frame was custom made in our studio. Frame size is 22" x 22" x 1.5" The painting has been lightly cleaned and lined onto a new canvas to strengthen it. It has a new coating of non-yellowing varnish. The frame has a protective backing board.
Woodshed Gallery
soldNov. 19, 2015William W. Churchill: Antique Boston School Portrait Of A Woman
Est: $4,500 - $6,500The Boston School artists produced portraits which are immediately recognizable due to their subtle warm coloration, refined brush work and strong, moody light. Often, as with this canvas, the light is from the back or side, leaving the main face in shadow. The artist is William Worcester Churchill, and the canvas bears his stylized monogram "wwC" Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts in 1858, Churchill's formal art training began in 1877 when he enrolled in the inaugural class of the Boston Art Museum School of Drawing and Painting. His teacher there was the German artist Emil Otto Grundmann, an educator of profound skill who produced such students as Edmund Tarbell, Robert Reid, and Frank Weston Benson. After studying with Grundmann for some time, Churchill travelled overseas to Paris, where, beginning in 1878, he studied under Léon Bonnat for two years. While still in Paris, Churchill also took lessons from his fellow-Bostonian Tarbell, who was himself in France studying at the Académie Julian. An outbreak of cholera in 1885 influenced many American artists to leave Paris and return home, and once back in Massachusetts, Churchill resumed his training under Tarbell, with whom he remained until 1888. The painting is on a 20"x16" stretched canvas, and dates from around 1900/1910. The new gold-metal leafed wood frame was custom made in our studio. Frame size is 22" x 22" x 1.5" The painting has been lightly cleaned and lined onto a new canvas to strengthen it. It has a new coating of non-yellowing varnish. The frame has a protective backing board.
Woodshed Gallery
soldOct. 22, 2015William W. Churchill: Antique Boston School Portrait Of A Woman
Est: $4,500 - $6,500The Boston School artists produced portraits which are immediately recognizable due to their subtle warm coloration, refined brush work and strong, moody light. Often, as with this canvas, the light is from the back or side, leaving the main face in shadow. The artist is William Worcester Churchill, and the canvas bears his stylized monogram "wwC" Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts in 1858, Churchill's formal art training began in 1877 when he enrolled in the inaugural class of the Boston Art Museum School of Drawing and Painting. His teacher there was the German artist Emil Otto Grundmann, an educator of profound skill who produced such students as Edmund Tarbell, Robert Reid, and Frank Weston Benson. After studying with Grundmann for some time, Churchill travelled overseas to Paris, where, beginning in 1878, he studied under Léon Bonnat for two years. While still in Paris, Churchill also took lessons from his fellow-Bostonian Tarbell, who was himself in France studying at the Académie Julian. An outbreak of cholera in 1885 influenced many American artists to leave Paris and return home, and once back in Massachusetts, Churchill resumed his training under Tarbell, with whom he remained until 1888. The painting is on a 20"x16" stretched canvas, and dates from around 1900/1910. The new gold-metal leafed wood frame was custom made in our studio. Frame size is 22" x 22" x 1.5" The painting has been lightly cleaned and lined onto a new canvas to strengthen it. It has a new coating of non-yellowing varnish. The frame has a protective backing board.
Woodshed Gallery
soldOct. 15, 2015William W. Churchill: Antique Boston School Portrait Of A Woman
Est: $4,500 - $6,500The Boston School artists produced portraits which are immediately recognizable due to their subtle warm coloration, refined brush work and strong, moody light. Often, as with this canvas, the light is from the back or side, leaving the main face in shadow. The artist is William Worcester Churchill, and the canvas bears his stylized monogram "wwC" Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts in 1858, Churchill's formal art training began in 1877 when he enrolled in the inaugural class of the Boston Art Museum School of Drawing and Painting. His teacher there was the German artist Emil Otto Grundmann, an educator of profound skill who produced such students as Edmund Tarbell, Robert Reid, and Frank Weston Benson. After studying with Grundmann for some time, Churchill travelled overseas to Paris, where, beginning in 1878, he studied under Léon Bonnat for two years. While still in Paris, Churchill also took lessons from his fellow-Bostonian Tarbell, who was himself in France studying at the Académie Julian. An outbreak of cholera in 1885 influenced many American artists to leave Paris and return home, and once back in Massachusetts, Churchill resumed his training under Tarbell, with whom he remained until 1888. The painting is on a 20"x16" stretched canvas, and dates from around 1900/1910. The new gold-metal leafed wood frame was custom made in our studio. Frame size is 22" x 22" x 1.5" The painting has been lightly cleaned and lined onto a new canvas to strengthen it. It has a new coating of non-yellowing varnish. The frame has a protective backing board.
Woodshed Gallery
soldSep. 26, 2015WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL, American, 1858-1926, Portrait of a lady holding a fan., Oil on canvas, 45" x 36". Framed.
Est: $1,200 - $1,800WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL American, 1858-1926 Portrait of a lady holding a fan. Signed lower left "Churchill". Provenance: Private Collection, Virginia. Exhibited: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia: "Portraits from the Boston School", January 25 to April 20, 2014. Oil on canvas, 45" x 36". Framed.
Eldred's
soldMay. 06, 2015William Worcester Churchill (British/American, 1858-1926) The w
Est: -William Worcester Churchill (British/American, 1858-1926) The white slipper 73 x 46 1/2in (185.4 x 118.1cm)
Bonhams
soldApr. 11, 2015Gloucester Harbor- William W Churchill- Oil/Canvas
Est: $3,000 - $5,000"Gloucester Harbor, MA" by William Worcester Churchill, painted in 1900. Oil on canvas, 30" H x 24" W, very good antique condition.
Greenwich Auction
soldApr. 04, 2015WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL, American, 1858-1926, Portrait of a lady holding a fan., Oil on canvas, 45" x 36". Framed.
Est: $3,250 - $4,750WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL American, 1858-1926 Portrait of a lady holding a fan. Signed lower left "Churchill". Provenance: Private Collection, Virginia. Exhibited: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia: "Portraits from the Boston School", January 25 to April 20, 2014. Oil on canvas, 45" x 36". Framed.
Eldred's
soldJan. 23, 2015William Worcester Churchill (American, 1858-1926), Swan Boats on Lake, Public Garden, Signed and dated "Churchill/1919" l.l., signed, i
Est: $20,000 - $25,000William Worcester Churchill (American, 1858-1926) Swan Boats on Lake, Public Garden Signed and dated "Churchill/1919" l.l., signed, inscribed, and titled "W.W. Churchill/Boston/Swan Boats on Lake/Public Garden" in ink on the reverse, identified on a label from Vose Galleries of Boston affixed to the frame backing. Oil on canvas, 22 x 26 in. (56.0 x 66.3 cm), framed. Condition: Minor retouch to fill craquelure, pentimento of a second signature l.r., minor frame abrasion. Provenance: Purchased by Charles J. Dunn, Sr. (1901-1983), Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1940; then by descent within the family. N.B. Churchill was born in Boston's Jamaica Plain, and was part of the first class at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts School. Churchill's subjects - impressionistic plein air views and quiet interior portraits - place him squarely into the Boston School along side the likes of William Paxton, Edmund Tarbell, and Frank Benson.
Skinner
soldNov. 22, 2014WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL, American, 1858-1926, Seated nude., Oil on canvas, 24" x 20". Framed.
Est: $2,500 - $3,500WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL American, 1858-1926 Seated nude. Inscribed in pencil in a later hand on reverse "William W.W. Churchill". Provenance: Barridoff Galleries, August 4, 2006, Lot #166. Provenance: Private Collection, Virginia. Exhibited: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia: "Portraits from the Boston School", January 25 to April 20, 2014. Oil on canvas, 24" x 20". Framed.
Eldred's
soldNov. 22, 2014WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL, American, 1858-1926, Portrait of a lady holding a fan., Oil on canvas, 45" x 36". Framed.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000WILLIAM WORCESTER CHURCHILL American, 1858-1926 Portrait of a lady holding a fan. Signed lower left "Churchill". Provenance: Private Collection, Virginia. Exhibited: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia: "Portraits from the Boston School", January 25 to April 20, 2014. Oil on canvas, 45" x 36". Framed.
Eldred's
soldNov. 19, 2014William Worcester Churchill (British/American, 1858-1926) The White Slipper 73 x 46 1/2in
Est: $20,000 - $30,000William Worcester Churchill (British/American, 1858-1926) The White Slipper 73 x 46 1/2in
Bonhams
soldOct. 08, 2014Gloucester Harbor- William W Churchill- Oil/Canvas
Est: $3,000 - $5,000"Gloucester Harbor, MA" by William Worcester Churchill, painted in 1900. Oil on canvas, 30" H x 24" W, very good antique condition.
Greenwich Auction
soldSep. 19, 2014William Worcester Churchill (American, 1858-1926), Mountains in Mist, Signed "Churchill" l.r., Condition: Paint losses, craquelure with
Est: $2,000 - $3,000William Worcester Churchill (American, 1858-1926) Mountains in Mist Signed "Churchill" l.r. Oil on canvas, 28 1/8 x 36 in. (71.4 x 91.3 cm), in a Foster Brothers frame. Condition: Paint losses, craquelure with areas of lifting, surface accretions and grime, discolored varnish.
Skinner
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