Lydia Hartford Wallace Berrett
Alternate TitleLydia Wallace Berrett
Artist
Raphaelle Peale
(American, 1774 - 1825)
Dateca. 1800
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 28 1/16 x 24 1/16 inches (71.28 x 61.12 cm)
Framed: 33 7/8 x 30 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches (86.04 x 76.84 x 5.72 cm)
Framed: 33 7/8 x 30 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches (86.04 x 76.84 x 5.72 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Edmund Morris Hansell
Object number49-80
SignedNone.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionHalf-length portrait of a lady facing left dressed in an Empire gown with blue-and-white dots; glimpse of landscape in th eleft background.Published ReferencesNell Sneak, “Nelson Gallery to Open Ancestor Portrait Exhibition,”
Kansas City Star, 29 March 1953, 3C; The Century of Mozart,
exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of
Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1956), 14, 31 (as Lydia
Wallace Berrett); NAMA 1959, 257 (as Lydia Wallace Berrett);
Hilton Kramer, “The Peales: Artists and Others,” New York Times,
5 February 1967, sec. 2, 27; Alfred Frankenstein, “The Peale
Clan in Contrast,” San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle,
2 April 1967, This World sec., 25–26 (as Lydia Wallace Berrett);
W. H. Gerdts, “The Peale Family at Detroit and Utica,” Burlington
Magazine 109 (April 1967), 261; Charles Elam, The Peale Family:
Three Generations of American Artists, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit
Institute of Arts and Wayne State University Press, 1967), 16, 91,
93 (as Mrs. Robert Berrett); NAMA 1973, 254 (as Lydia Wallace
Berrett); Donald Hoffmann, “The ‘Truth’ in American Art,” Kansas City Star, 24 February 1974, 4E; Ross E. Taggart, “American
Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri,” Antiques 122 (November 1982), 1029; Lillian B. Miller,
“Father and Son: The Relationship of Charles Willson Peale and
Raphaelle Peale,” American Art Journal 25 (1993), 38, 45.
Kansas City Star, 29 March 1953, 3C; The Century of Mozart,
exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of
Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1956), 14, 31 (as Lydia
Wallace Berrett); NAMA 1959, 257 (as Lydia Wallace Berrett);
Hilton Kramer, “The Peales: Artists and Others,” New York Times,
5 February 1967, sec. 2, 27; Alfred Frankenstein, “The Peale
Clan in Contrast,” San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle,
2 April 1967, This World sec., 25–26 (as Lydia Wallace Berrett);
W. H. Gerdts, “The Peale Family at Detroit and Utica,” Burlington
Magazine 109 (April 1967), 261; Charles Elam, The Peale Family:
Three Generations of American Artists, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit
Institute of Arts and Wayne State University Press, 1967), 16, 91,
93 (as Mrs. Robert Berrett); NAMA 1973, 254 (as Lydia Wallace
Berrett); Donald Hoffmann, “The ‘Truth’ in American Art,” Kansas City Star, 24 February 1974, 4E; Ross E. Taggart, “American
Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri,” Antiques 122 (November 1982), 1029; Lillian B. Miller,
“Father and Son: The Relationship of Charles Willson Peale and
Raphaelle Peale,” American Art Journal 25 (1993), 38, 45.
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