{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":14482,"auction_id":13,"set_id":25,"lot_number":"31","artist":"Fernando Amorsolo (1892 - 1972)","title":"An Officer and a Gentleman (Portrait of Major Daniel Stroder Robertson U.S. Cavalry, Veterinary Corps.)","starting_price":400000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1937 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"37 1/2\" x 26 1/2\" (95 cm x 67 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Mrs. Sylvia\nAmorsolo-Lazo confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"Commissioned and acquired directly from the artist by Col. Daniel S.\nRoberston of the U.S. Cavalry, when he was stationed at Fort McKinley,\nTaguig; as evidenced by an official receipt from the artist's studio\nsigned by Fernando C. Amorsolo, 2132 Azcarraga Street, Manila and\nreceived on his behalf by ML Buenaventura on 1 Dec. 1937; made\nout to Col. Robertson for final payment in the amount of P60 for ‘his\npicture in oil’; from thence by descent to his daughter Del Robertson\nDowling of Berkeley, California; then as a gift to her first cousin\nElizabeth Darphin Callender","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Art historians agree that Amorsolo’s golden years spanned the period from the First World War to the Second; and his portraits from the 1930s representing the height of his powers, honed by the demands of a colonial clientele.
Then as now, Amorsolo’s studio, said his biographer Alfredo R. Roces, was “still filled with about a half a dozen portraits in various stage of completion.” He noted, Amorsolo was a master portraitist, since his forte was a figure painting. “Even his genre works are essentially of people, with the landscape and rendering of light serving as elements to bring out a face or several faces. Amorsolo liked to do portraits of members of his family. He even did self-portraits.”
This painting of an American cavalry officer in Manila depicts a ram-rod straight gentleman, with reddish-gold hair. He is dressed in the tropical khakis of the Philippine command; this colonel clasps his broad leather belt in a relaxed yet powerful stance. Such portraits were a requisite part of the tour of duty of officialdom of the United States. (Lisa Guerrero Nakpil)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Fernando Amorsolo (1892 - 1972) An Officer and a Gentleman (Portrait of Major Daniel Stroder Robertson U.S. Cavalry, Veterinary Corps.) signed and dated 1937 (lower left) oil on canvas 37 1/2\" x 26 1/2\" (95 cm x 67 cm)