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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.101
People
Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Title
Elizabeth Winslow Whitman Williams (Mrs. Samuel King Williams) (1795-1886)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1824
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228773

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68.6 x 55.9 cm (27 x 22 in.)
framed: 85.7 x 73 x 7 cm (33 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: 1. Small label: MFA/264.25/ Stuart - Mrs. S. K. Williams/ lent by/ the Misses Storer/ 51 Garden St., Camb.
    2. Small label: MFA/ Mrs. S.C. Williams/ storage,/ May 22, 1896 (year unclear)
    3. Large label: MFA/ artist Gilbert Stuart/ subject Portrait of Mrs. S. K. Williams/ owner: Mrs. S.C. Williams/ 198 Beacon St./ (illegible)
    4. Large label: MFA/ Gilbert Stuart's Works/ Title (illegible)/ Owner: S.K. Williams/ to be returned/ to 68 Boylston St.
    Label on back of canvas protected with mylar:
    Life of Gilbert Stuart/ by George C. Mason/ contains a list of portraits/ Mrs. Samuel Williams 1824/ hand (next word is illegible)/ Mrs. Williams 1823/ Received $100 for each/ one

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel King Williams, Boston; to their daughter, Sarah C. Williams; to her nieces, Miss Elizabeth Winslow and Miss Helen Langdon Storer; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1954.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Winslow Storer and Helen Langdon Storer
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.101
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • George C. Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1894), p. 279
  • Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. II, p. 823, no. 923; vol. IV, ill. p. 582
  • Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 465, cat. 2470
  • Charles Merrill Mount, Gilbert Stuart: A Biography, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY, 1964), p. 377
  • 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), p. 460, cat. 426, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Exhibtion of Portrtraits Painted by the Late Gilbert Stuart, Esq., Boston Athenaeum, 01/01/1828 - 12/31/1828
  • Loan Exhibition of Stuart's Works, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/01/1880 - 05/31/1880
  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977

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