Mantel

1813

Samuel Field McIntire
American, 1780–1819

Samuel Field McIntire, the son of the Salem architect-craftsman Samuel McIntire, carved this mantel for the 1813 alteration of Oak Hill, Elizabeth Derby West’s country estate in South Danvers, Massachusetts. Continuing work begun by his father, who designed coordinated interiors for Oak Hill in 1800, Field McIntire enhanced the home with further decorations. He followed his father’s style, carving ornament—including grape vines, cornucopia, and baskets of fruit and flowers—as well as architectural details, such as dentil molding and the Greek key motif, that bespeak reserved Federal design in America.

Status: On View, Gallery 169
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Samuel McIntire
Title: Mantel
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1813
Medium: Wood
Dimensions: 139.7 × 185.4 × 16.5 cm (55 × 73 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1951.266
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F. Kimball, “Furniture Carvings by Samuel McIntire,” Antiques Vol. 38 No. 5 (November, 1930), 389 (ill.).
M.M. Swan, “McIntire: Check and Countercheck,” Antiques Vol. 21 No. 2 (February, 1932), 86 (ill.).
Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (Framingham, MA, Old America Company, 1933), Vol. 3, 21 (ill.).
F. Kimball, Mr. Samuel Mcintire: The Architect of Salem (The Essex Institute, Salem, MA, 1940), 96–98 (ill.).
The Greater Chicago Antiques Show and Sale Presented by the North Shore Junior Board and Northwestern University Settlement, Inc., Mar–Apr. 1955, cover (ill.).
M.R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Antiques Vol. 74 No. 1 (July 1958), 53 (ill.).
D.A. Fales, “The Furniture of McIntire,” in Samuel McIntire: A Bicentennial Symposium, (B.W. Labaree, ed., The Essex Institute, Salem, MA, 1957), 61 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 231.

Commissioned by Elizabeth Derby West (1762–1814), Danvers (now Peabody), MA, for her estate Oak Hill, 1813 [Elizabeth was married to Captain Nathaniel West Sr. (1756–1851) until they divorced in 1806, at which time Elizabeth assumed sole ownership Oak Hill as part of their divorce settlement]; bequeathed to her three daughters Martha Derby West (1787–1851), Elizabeth (Eliza) West Lander (1790–1849), and Sarah Derby West (1797–1819), 1814 [upon Sarah’s death in 1814, Nathaniel West Sr. regained 1/3 ownership of Oak Hill and its contents, and upon Elizabeth West Lander’s death in 1849, her share passed by descent to her husband Edward Lander (1787–1862), who then transferred his share of Oak Hill to his father-in-law Nathaniel West Sr. in 1849]; Captain Nathaniel West Sr., Danvers (now Peabody), MA, 1849; sold with the Oak Hill property to Elizabeth Leavitt Rogers (born Pickman), 1850; to Richard Saltsonstall Rogers, William Dudley Pickman, and William Crowninshield Rogers (Trustees for Dudley Pickman Rogers, George Willoughby Rogers, and Elizabeth Pickman Rogers), 1853; to George Willoughby Rogers and Elizabeth Pickman Rogers, 1874; to William Crowninshield Endicott and Richard Dennison Rogers (Trustees for George and Elizabeth Pickman Rogers [Mrs. Alfred John Pound]), 1875; to Elizabeth Putnam Rogers (Mrs. Jacob Crowninshield Rogers), 1877; removed from Oak Hill and transferred to The Lindens estate, Danvers, MA, 1878; sold to George Maurice Morris (1889–1954) and Miriam Hubbard Morris (1892–1982), Danvers, MA, and Washington, DC, 1934 [Mr. and Mrs. Morris relocated The Lindens estate and its contents from Danvers to 2401 Kalorama Road, Washington, DC, in 1937]; mantel sold to an unknown buyer, by 1951 [according to The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, 1977]. With Edwin Jackson, Inc., New York, 1951; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.

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