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Edward Parker of Browsholme

Artist Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755 - 1828)
Dateca. 1787
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 3/16 x 25 inches (76.68 x 63.5 cm)
Framed: 35 3/4 x 30 3/4 inches (90.81 x 78.11 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-103
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DescriptionBust portrait of sitter in deep red coat with white jabot. Oval painting on a rectangular canvas.Published References

Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works Compiled by Lawrence Park; with an Account of His Life by John Hill Morgan and an Appreciation by Royal Cortissoz (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926), 2:568-69, 4:369;

"The Acquisitions," Art Digest 8 (1 December 1933), 16, 22 (as Sir Edward Parker);

"The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art: Complete Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings," Art News 32 (9 December 1933), 28, 65 (as Sir Edward Parker);

NAMA 1933, 121, 125, 138 (as Sir Edward Parker);

NAMA 1941, 153 (as Sir Edward Parker), 166 (as Portrait of Sir Edward Parker);

Retrospective Exhibition of Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, 1755-1828, exh. cat. (Indianapolis: John Herron Art Museum, 1942), unpaginated (as Sir Edward Parker);

"Art Sets Fashion Key: Paintings to Be Displayed in Mindlin's Style Event," Kansas City Star, [1948], clipping, Scrapbook, NAMA Archives (as Sir Edward Parker);

NAMA 1949, 199 (as Sir Edward Parker);

Charles Merrill Mount, Gilbert Stuart: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1964), 361;

NAMA 1973, 255 (as Sir Edward Parker).

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