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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.77
People
Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Title
Sarah Inman Linzee (Mrs. Joseph Lewis Cunningham) (1787-1820)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1807
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370654

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73.8 × 60.3 cm (29 1/16 × 23 3/4 in.)
frame: 91 × 77.5 cm (35 13/16 × 30 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, center stretcher, black crayon: # 3817F
  • label: verso, top stretcher, left side, red border, black ink: [illegible text, ripped] 28. frame
  • label: verso, top strecher, upper right, red border, black ink: Mrs. T J Coolidge / 184 Beacon / frame 2 [encircled]
  • label: verso, top of frame, red border, black ink: T. J. Coolidge / 28.
  • inscription: verso, top stretcher, graphite: 2599
  • inscription: verso, left side of frame, black crayon: # 3817 F [?]
  • label: verso, top of frame: [printed:] TO [graphite:] Mrs. EDWARD LINZEE / CUNNINGHAM / by GILBERT STUART

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Family history holds that the sitter gave the portrait to her brother John Inman Linzee (1781-1859). By descent to the heirs of Edward Linzee Cunnignham (1810-1905), sold; to Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., 1906 (1863-1912); to his wife, Clara (Amory) Coolidge (1872-1857), to; her heirs; to her cousin Francis Inman Amory II (1895-1974); to Catherine Coolidge Lastavica, 1974, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Catherine Coolidge Lastavica
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.77
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John William Linzee, Lindeseie and Limesi Families of Great Britian, The Fort Hill Press (Boston, privately published, 1917), vol. 1, repr. opp. p. 200
  • Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. 1, p. 246, cat. no. 198
  • Jeannine Falino, Lives Shaped by the American Revolution: Portraits of a Boston Family, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2005), pp. 64-66, cat. no. 7, repr. p. 65

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