Hendricks will be represented Thursday in Swann Auction Galleries' sale of African American fine art.

Born here in 1945, Hendricks is an alumnus of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University, and is a professor of art at Connecticut College. He is best known for his life-size portraits of African Americans, frequently city dwellers, according to a Swann news release.

Although only one Hendricks work is included in the 116-lot sale, which will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the galleries at 104 E. 25th St., it has one of the auction's top presale estimates. The 1973 oil-and-acrylic-on-canvas portrait of a young woman, Bid 'Em In/Slave (Angie), is expected to bring $60,000 to $90,000, according to the online catalog, accessible at www.swanngalleries.com. The painting comes from the collection of fellow Philadelphia artist Charles Searles.

The sale also will offer works by other, perhaps better-established Philadelphia-area artists, including a self-portrait by Louis B. Sloan that has a presale estimate of $20,000 to $30,000 and five works by Dox Thrash, notably a street scene, Twenty-Fourth Street and Ridge Avenue, that has a presale estimate of $2,000 to $3,000.

Also in the auction is a view by Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948) of her studio in Cheyney, home of Cheyney University, the oldest historically black institution of higher education. It has a presale estimate of $7,000 to $10,000.

The auction's top lot is an acrylic and oil on canvas by Harlem Renaissance muralist John Biggers, Shotguns, a reference to shotgun-style houses. It has a presale estimate of $200,000 to $250,000.

Previews are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Monday through Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow; and 10 a.m. to noon Thursday. For more information, call 212-254-4710.

Furniture, silver, and decorative arts at Freeman's. Freeman's will offer English and Continental goods at a catalog sale Tuesday and Wednesday at 1808 Chestnut St. More than 1,000 lots of furniture, silver, and decorative arts will be offered, with English items to be sold on Tuesday and Continental on Wednesday. Most lots are expected to sell in the high three or low four figures.

Along with the furniture, much of it from the Georgian period, the 389 lots to be sold Tuesday beginning at 10 a.m. include silver and a single-owner collection of majolica. Top lots include a George III three-part mahogany banquet table with three leaf extensions ($8,000 to $12,000); a George III three-pedestal dining table with two leaf extensions that extend it to 151 inches by 491/2 inches; a Sheraton Revival inlaid display cabinet; and a Regency sofa table (each of the three $10,000 to $15,000).

The more than 80 lots of silver include a French neoclassical-style casket box made around 1870 ($5,000 to $6,000), a massive pair of Italian seven-light candelabra ($10,000 to $15,000), and a Georg Jensen "grape" pattern tazza (pedestaled bowl) with marks dating it to 1925 to 1932 ($10,000 to $13,000). The three dozen lots of majolica include a set of six Minton oyster plates with date marks of 1870 ($1,000 to $1,500).

The more than 600 lots in Wednesday's session, also beginning at 10 a.m., include porcelains, many of them Meissen, and bronzes and Russian decorative items, many of which will bring the session's top prices.

They include a late-19th-century Russian Order of St. Anne presentation shaska sword that has a presale estimate of $25,000 to $35,000 and a bronze representation of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse made by the German American Lee Lawrie that has a presale estimate of $15,000 to $25,000. According to catalog notes, director Rex Ingram commissioned the 24-inch-high statue for the premiere of his 1921 film of the same name, which promoted Rudolph Valentino to stardom.

The statue is one of three dozen bronzes from a private Pennsylvania collection that also includes Louis Chalon's Octopus Dancer, with a presale estimate of $15,000 to $25,000, although most of the other bronzes should bring three- or four-figure prices.

Other Russian decorative objects include silver and gilt enamel table items, notably a sugar basket with a presale estimate of $8,000 to $12,000 from a Bucks County collection, and military items, notably a mid-19th-century Russian Imperial Army regimental bugle with a presale estimate of $8,000 to $12,000.

The furniture also includes Russian pieces, notably a Russian Empire mahogany and brass-mounted cylinder desk with a presale estimate of $7,000 to $10,000. Other top items in Wednesday's session are a 19th-century Italian marble statue of a nymph and a Louis XV-style gilt bronze mounted tulipwood and kingwood bed made by French artisan Jean Millet. Both have presale estimates of $10,000 to $15,000.

Previews are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today, tomorrow, and Monday. For more information, call 215-563-9275; to see the auction catalog online, go to www.freemansauction.com