Portrait of Janet Mitchel Wilson

Artist Unknown

Date1847

MediumWatercolor on ivory

DimensionsPlate (sixth): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (8.26 × 6.99 cm)
Case (open): 3 3/4 × 6 5/8 × 1/4 inches (9.53 × 16.83 × 0.64 cm)
Case (closed): 3 3/4 × 3 1/4 × 9/16 inches (9.53 × 8.26 × 1.43 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.456

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DescriptionPainted image of a young woman in three-quarter profile. She wears a white dress with a pink shawl; her hair is parted in the middle and ringlets fall to her shoulders. This is housed in an oval, brass mat inside of a leather-covered case with a pink silk liner.Provenance

Provenance

Commissioned by the sitter Janet Mitchel Wilson (1828–1899) and her husband, Dr. Thomas Epps Wilson (1817–1876), Warrenton, NC, 1847–1899 [1];

By descent to their daughter, Lizzie Holman Wilson Montgomery (1850–1944), Warrenton, NC, 1899–1944;

By descent to her daughter, Elizabeth Mitchel Montgomery (“Miss Betsy”) (1882–1981), Raleigh, NC, 1944–1981 [2];

Inherited by Robert Hal McNeely (b. 1950), Raleigh, NC, 1981–at least 1984 [3];

Sold from Historical Auction: Autographs, Posters, Photographs, Riba Auctions, Glastonbury, CT, June 17, 1989, lot 42 [4];

Probably with Larry Gottheim Fine Early Photographs, Binghamton NY, by 1991 [5];

Probably purchased from Gottheim by Alan Trachtenberg (1932–2020), Hamden, CT, by 1991 [6];

Purchased from Alan Trachtenberg by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, by 2005;

Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

Published References

Alan Trachtenberg, "A Story of a Daguerreotype," (mss., n.d.).

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