Frances Warren

Artist Jeremiah Theus (American, born Switzerland, 1716 - 1774)

Dateca. 1769

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 30 3/16 x 25 inches (76.68 x 63.5 cm)
Framed: 41 3/4 x 37 1/16 x 4 inches (106.05 x 94.14 x 10.16 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number40-6

SignedNone

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DescriptionFemale figure is seated facing her right, wearing a green-blue dress with white basque trimmed with lace at neck and sleeves and fastened down the front with large dark red stones and pearl loops. Five strands of pearls ring her neck.Published References

Published References

“Art Sets Fashion Key: Painting to Be Displayed in Mindlin’s Style
Event,” Kansas City Star, [1948], clipping, Scrapbook, NAMA
Archives; Margaret Simons Middleton, Jeremiah Theus, Colonial
Artist of Charles Town (Columbia: University of South Carolina
Press, 1953), 172; NAMA 1959, 257; Four Centuries of American
Art, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1963),
unpaginated (as Portrait of Frances Warren); NAMA 1973, 169,
255; Ross E. Taggart, “American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri,” Antiques 122 (November
1982), 1027; Martha R. Severens, “Jeremiah Theus of Charleston:
Plagiarist or Pundit?” Southern Quarterly 24 (Fall / Winter 1985),
62; Margaret Simons Middleton, Jeremiah Theus, Colonial Artist
of Charles Town (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,
1991), 172.

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