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Mrs. Stennett

Artist Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778 - 1860)
Dateca. 1835
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 1/8 x 25 1/8 inches (76.52 x 63.82 cm)
Framed: 41 1/2 x 36 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (105.41 x 92.71 x 9.53 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-2/1
Signedverso: "Rembrandt Peale, pinxit N. Y. 1835"
On View
Not on view
Gallery Location
  • 211
Collections
DescriptionHalf-length, frontal portrait of a woman with dark hair and eyes; wears white chiffon hat bordered with lace and flowers, pink ribbon; Indian shawl around her shoulders.Published References

"$21,000 for Picture of Washington," New York Times, 8 January 1919, 11;

"$21,000 Paid for Stuart Picture," Sun (New York), 8 January 1919, 9;

"The Week's Picture Sales: Early American Portrait Sale," American Art News 17 (11 January 1919), 5;

De Luxe Illustrated Catalogue of Early American Portraits: Collected by Mr. Thomas B. Clarke, New York City (New York: Lent & Graff Company, 1919), no. 7;

"Paintings Sold at Auction," American Art Annual 16 (1919), 271;

"Beautiful Paintings by American Artists in Butler Gallery," Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator, 12 March 1922, 8B;

Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale and James Peale and Rembrandt Peale, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1923), 97;

Leila Mechlin, "Early American Portrait Painters," Connoisseur 68 (March 1924), 129;

Paintings by Old and Modern Masters, exh. cat. (Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, 1924), unpaginated;

Catalogue of the Summer Exhibition of Paintings, exh. cat. (Portland, Me.: Portland Society of Art, 1924), unpaginated;

W[illiam] H. D[ownes], "Early American Portraits: Summer Exhibition at the Vose Galleries Contains Notable Works," Boston Evening Transcript, 11 August 1926, sec. 2, 3;

"Notes on Current Art," International Studio 85 (September 1926), 88, 90;

The R. C. Vose Collection of Colonial Portraits, exh. cat. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1926), unpaginated;

"Colonial Portraits, Exhibit of Sculpture and Talks by Expert to Feature Art Gallery Program," Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press, 28 January 1928, 5;

["Portraits of Early American Patriots Interest Local Art and History"], Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press, [January 1928], clipping, NAMA curatorial files;

"Work of Colonial Painters Charms Gallery Visitors," Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald, 13 February 1928, 5;

Colonial Portraits: From Collection of Robert C. Vose of Boston, exh. cat. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Grand Rapids Art Gallery, 1928), unpaginated;

Albert Franz Cochrane, "Dignity of American Art," Boston Evening Transcript, 18 May 1929, 7;

A. J. Philpott, "American Paintings Seen at Copley Square Exhibition," Boston Globe, 21 May 1929, 32;

Alice Lawton, "English and American Portraits of Long Ago in Boston Collections," Boston Post, 2 June 1929, D7;

Exhibition of Masterworks by Deceased American Artists, exh. cat. (Boston: Robert C. Vose Galleries, 1929), unpaginated;

A. J. Philpott, "Portraits of Colonial Period in Tercentenary Art Exhibition," Boston Globe, 19 June 1930, 9;

"Early Days of American Art," Boston Post, 20 July 1930, A8;

Exhibition of Colonial Portraits Celebrating the Tercentenary of the Founding of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1630-1930, exh. cat. (Boston: Robert C. Vose Galleries, 1930), unpaginated;

Alice Lawton, "Notable Portraits at the Vose Galleries," Boston Post, 26 June 1931, 23;

A. J. Philpott, "Wonderful Collection of Old American Portraits," Boston Globe, 29 November 1932, 11;

"The Acquisitions," Art Digest 8 (1 December 1933), 21 (as Portrait of Mrs. Stennett);

"The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art: Complete Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings," Art News 32 (9 December 1933), 28 (as Portrait of Mrs. Stennett);

NAMA 1933, 137 (as Portrait of Mrs. Stennett);

NAMA 1941, 166 (as Portrait of Mrs. Stennett);

NAMA 1959, 257;

NAMA 1973, 254;

NAMA 1977, 20;

Kristie C. Wolferman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Culture Comes to Kansas City (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993), 141.

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