More about Paulding Farnham, Tiffany's designer extraordinaire

Magazine Antiques, March, 1999 by Janet Zapata

8 For more about Sally Farnham, see George F. McFarland, "Sally James Farnham: The Remington Years," Quarterly: the Official Publication of the Saint Lawrence County Historical Association, vol. 36, no. 3 (Summer 1991), pp. 3-4.

9 Sally's pintos were named Powder, Paint, and Patches.

10 The cup was kept by the Belmont family until 1926, when Eleanor Belmont donated it to the Westchester Racing Association in memory of her husband, August Belmont II (1853-1924), for presentation to the winner of the Belmont Stakes.

11 Vol. 1., no. 6 (October 1900), p. 64. Its whereabouts today is unknown.

12 Now in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, the brooch is illustrated in ANTIQUES, March 1991, p. 561, Pl. V.

13 A version of the original drawing for this second iris brooch is illustrated ibid., p. 562, Pl. VII.

14 Farnham to Abram J. Elkus of New York City, September 9, 1913 (in the collection of Sheila Tinsley).

15 The nineteen paintings depicted: a Phoenician merchant galley of c. 700 B.C.; a fifth-century Greek wartime trireme (Pl. X); a twelfth-century ship of the Crusades; an eighth-century Viking trading ship; Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria of 1492; the early fifteenth-century Great Harry (Pl. IX); Great Hermine of 1534; Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind, 1578; a Dutch galleon of 1570; HMS Ark Royal of 1588; a Spanish galleon of 1578; two Elizabethan galleons; the Mayflower, 1620; a seventeenth-century Venetian nuptial bark; a seventeenth-century Venetian Bucentaur; a galleon of Henry VII; a seventeenth-century Spanish galleon; and Flying Cloud, 1851.

16 Marisa Keller, curatorial assistant at the Corcoran Gallery, informed me about the Vose Gallery exhibition by providing me with a copy of an invitation in the Corcoran Gallery's archives.

17 Sunday Star, April 13, 1924.

18 Final Liquidation Sale by Auction: The entire stock of the estate of the late Max williams, Part III, Elliot A. Haaseman gallery, New York City, April 3-5, 1930, Lot 472. A copy is in the Tinsley collection.

19 Sunday Star, April 13, 1924.

20 Quoted ibid.

21 A hand-written notation in the introduction in the copy of the sale catalogue cited in n. 18 records a price of $2,300, probably for the whole collection.

22 Sally Farnham died on April 28, 1943, and her estate was sold in October of that year.

23 See "Ancient Ships of the Merchant Marine That Opened the Commerce of the World," Waterways, vol. 3, no. 7 (September 1944), pp. 27-35. I am grateful to David G. wilkins, director of the University Art Gallery at the University of Pittsburgh, for bringing the paintings to my attention and for providing information about Arthur Braun.

JANET ZAPATA is a silver and jewelry historian.