77.1986: Mary Harrison Eliot (1788-1846)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

77.1986

People

Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Mary Harrison Eliot (1788-1846)

Title

Mary Harrison Eliot (1788-1846)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1808-1809

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304508

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

71.6 x 57.8 cm (28 3/16 x 22 3/4 in.)
framed: 89.2 x 76.5 x 8.9 cm (35 1/8 x 30 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mary Harrison Eliot (Mrs. Edmund Dwight), Boston; Commission, 1808-1809; her daughter, Sophia Dwight (Mrs. John Wells), Boston, 1846; her daughter, Mary Eliot Wells (Mrs. James Phillips Farley), Brookline, MA; her son, Eliot Farley (married Helen Grozier Farley); Mount Kisco, New York, Merryville, CT; his daughter, Patricia Farley (Mrs. LeMoyne White) Hawkins, and son, Eliot Farley Jr., 1986; her daughter, Wendy White, Rome; her long term loan to Eliot House, Harvard University, 1986.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Loan from Wendy Pierrepont White and Alexander Eliot Capilli

Object Number

77.1986

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. I, p. 304-05, no. 271; vol. III, ill. p. 164
• 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. 135, cat. 705

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