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Name: Portrait - Oil Painting - 1863
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Category: Fine Art
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Description: Portrait:
Colonel Edwin L. Drake. Father and Founder of the American Petroleum Industry. Colonel Drake drilled the first successful commercial oil well at Titusville, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1859.
Painting size: Canvas 19 1/2" wide x 23" high.
Provenance: From the home of a prominent Titusville, PA family.
Comments:
Edwin L. Drake was born Greenville, New York, March 29, 1819. Colonel Drake departed Titusville, PA area in 1863 when he moved to Castleton, Vermont. Later he moved to New Jersey where he was a consultant to the many oil speculators located in New Jersey. According to the family from whom the painting was purchashed, Drake sat for the painting just prior to leaving the PA Oil Region in 1863. The State of Vermont erected a historical marker outside Edwin Drake's home in Castleton in 1959 on the 100th anniversary of his historic discovery. Drake died November 20, 1880.
The artist, who did not sign the painting, is said by the family from whom the painting was purchased, to have been one of the many itinerant artists passing through Titusville and Pennsylvania Oil Region and convinced Drake to sit for the canvas.
Historically Important. Exceedingly Rare.
Additionally, included with the purchase of the painting is a Medallion commemorating 75th Anniversary of Colonel Edwin L. Drake's discovery of oil August 27, 1859 at Titusville, Venango County, PA.
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Condition: Excellent
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Selling Price (USD): $ 15,000.00
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Location of Item: North Port, Florida (FL) 34286
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