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Filipino Spanish Colonial Family Portraits / Ledger: Ochoa / Cortes families; Noel J. Cortes, MD, artist: [with three exceptions, all paintings and drawings are signed, the large sheet drawings are generally dated (within the 1936-38 timeframe), and some of the portraits are titled or identify the sitter by name verso]. //////////////////////////////This interesting group of portraits and landscapes, together with a 1912-13 estate inventory ledger [Dona Eustaquia Dolores Ochoa Peres de Fagle y Santo Tomas de Cortes (widow of Don Maximo Cortes)] are a relic of two of the most prominent of the old Spanish colonial families in the Philippines. The intermarried Ochoa and Cortes families had vast land holdings throughout the islands, and the Ochoa Department Store in Manila was the most distinguished of its class in the country. All of the art in this lot was created by Dr. Noel J. Cortes, who came to the United States in the 1920's to study medicine at Georgetown University, and later practiced for many years in Philadelphia. Dr. Cortes painted avocationally throughout his adult life and, during a return visit to his home in 1936-38, captured artistically the people and places of the islands with 19 charcoal drawings (portraits and genre scenes -- all unframed), one oil painting genre scene, and 9 portrait paintings of family members and family retainers offered here. The small group of photographic portraits are of Dr. Cortes' parents, and the aforementioned estate ledger, entirely in Spanish, documents the families' real estate and other holdings. The charcoal drawngs are mostly on sheets measuring 19"h x 25"w, while the largest framed painting measures 26 1/2" h x 23" w (frame). The smallest framed portrait measures 18 1/2" h x 15" w. CONDITION: very good to excellent throughout; one portrait with evident inpaintng in small area of background only.

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