Portrait of Dr. Thomas Epps Wilson
Case (open): 4 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 3/8 inches (11.43 × 19.05 × 0.95 cm)
Case (closed): 4 1/2 × 3 3/4 × 3/4 inches (11.43 × 9.53 × 1.91 cm)
[Companion to 2005.27.284 and 2005.27.456]Provenance
Commissioned by the sitter Dr. Thomas Epps Wilson (1817–1876) and his wife, Janet Mitchel Wilson (1828–1899), 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 Trachtenberg by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, by 2005;
Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
