Miss Vestine Porter
Artist
George Caleb Bingham
(American, 1811 - 1879)
Dateca. 1849
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 24 1/8 × 20 1/4 inches (61.28 × 51.44 cm)
Framed: 29 3/4 × 25 3/4 inches (75.57 × 65.41 cm)
Framed: 29 3/4 × 25 3/4 inches (75.57 × 65.41 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Maude Stark Guinotte
Object number55-1
SignedNone.
InscribedNone.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionBust-length frontal portrait o fyoung, dark-haired woman wearing white, high-necked blouse with a rose at the collar; landscape background.Published ReferencesNAMA 1959, 255 (as Vestine Porter Clark); “George Caleb Bing
ham: Sesquicentennial Exhibition, 1811–1961,” Bulletin (William
Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine
Arts) 3 (1961), 16 (as Portrait of Vestine Porter [Stark]); E. Maurice
Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley
and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 74; E.
Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967),
190, 212, 337; NAMA 1973, 250 (as Vestine Porter Clark); National
Society of the Colonial Dames in America, Missouri, Portraits in
Missouri: Painted before 1860 (n.p.: National Society of the Colo
nial Dames in America, 1974), unpaginated (as Vestine Porter
Stark); E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham:
A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press,
1986), 79, 187–88; NAMA 1993b, 75 (as Portrait of Vestine Porter
Stark).
ham: Sesquicentennial Exhibition, 1811–1961,” Bulletin (William
Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine
Arts) 3 (1961), 16 (as Portrait of Vestine Porter [Stark]); E. Maurice
Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley
and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 74; E.
Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967),
190, 212, 337; NAMA 1973, 250 (as Vestine Porter Clark); National
Society of the Colonial Dames in America, Missouri, Portraits in
Missouri: Painted before 1860 (n.p.: National Society of the Colo
nial Dames in America, 1974), unpaginated (as Vestine Porter
Stark); E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham:
A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press,
1986), 79, 187–88; NAMA 1993b, 75 (as Portrait of Vestine Porter
Stark).
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George Caleb Bingham
1874
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