1943.158: Eliza Melville Young McAllister (Mrs. John McAllister, Jr.) (1790-1853)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.158
- People
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Thomas Sully, American (Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England 1783 - 1872 Philadelphia, PA)
- Title
- Eliza Melville Young McAllister (Mrs. John McAllister, Jr.) (1790-1853)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1831
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/311254
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: on verso: [Eliza] McAllister 1831/ T S 1831
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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W. H. McAllister, Philadelphia, PA; purchased from Albert Duveen through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1942; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.158
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Charles Henry Hart, A Register of Portraits Painted by Thomas Sully, 1801-1871 (Philadelphia, PA, 1909), p. 109, no. 1081
- Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872), Wickersham Press (Philadelphia, PA, 1921), p. 217, no. 1125
- Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 238
- Louise Todd Ambler and Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "American Painting at Harvard", Antiques (New York, NY, November 1972), vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 876-883, pp. 877-878, fig. 6
- Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 43, ill.
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 27, 472-73, cat 438, ill.
Exhibition History
- American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
Verification Level
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