Portrait of a Woman
Artist
Mather Brown
(American, 1761 - 1831)
Dateca. 1805
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Framed: 37 1/4 × 32 5/16 inches (94.62 × 82.07 cm)
Framed: 37 1/4 × 32 5/16 inches (94.62 × 82.07 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-198/2
SignedNone
InscribedNone
On View
On viewGallery Location
- 212
Collections
DescriptionHalf-length portrait of seated woman shoulders turned slightly proper right, face to spectator; wears white mobcap with large bow in front, frilled ruff, white neckscarf tied in front over black dress, paisley shawl over right shoulder and right arm; right hand holds spectacles; patterned drape in background.Published ReferencesEdward Alden Jewell, "Art: Early Paintings Exhibited," New York Times, 17 October 1931, 24;
"Early American Paintings: Kleeman- Thorman Galleries," Art News 10 (24 October 1931), 10;
"American Old Masters Shown," New York Sun, [1931?], clipping, Scrapbook, NAMA Archives;
"The Acquisitions," Art Digest 8 (1 December 1933), 21 (as Portrait of a Lady);
"The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art: Complete Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings," Art News 32 (9 December 1933), 28 (as Portrait of a Lady);
NAMA 1933, 136 (as Portrait of a Lady);
NAMA 1941, 166 (as Portrait of a Lady);
NAMA 1959, 255 (as Portrait of a Lady);
NAMA 1973, 251 (as Portrait of a Lady);
NAMA 1991, 25-26.
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