john-mooney-va-1843-1918-jamestown-remembered
Lot 340
John Mooney (VA, 1843-1918), Jamestown Remembered
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, signed "J. Mooney 1915" lower left, depicts Jamestown's 1639 church tower with the Captain John Smith monument in the foreground and the settlement's tercentennial monument in the background. Presented in a later gilt and carved wooden frame with brass gallery plaque. SS 15.5 x 25.5 in.; DOA 20 x 30.25

The Estate Collection of Dr. & Mrs. R. Lewis Wright, Richmond, VA

Mooney, though born in New York, adopted Virginia as home and actually served in the Confederate army. Dr. Wright purchased several Mooney paintings in the early 1970s from Young's of Richmond, Virginia.

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