Hahlo-62, E. Marblestone Esq.

American Numismatic Society, IECM, 59.

62. E. Marblestone esq., painter.

Brenner models this portrait of his friend Elias Marblestone (b.1874) in New York in 1897 before he leaves for Paris. Because of a cataloguing error it has long been misidentified as a self-portrait. Fortunately, Brenner exhibited the work throughout his life and it could be identified from photographs of exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the American Numismatic Society.