Lot 161
  • 161

Gilbert Stuart 1755-1828

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Gilbert Stuart
  • Miss Anna Powell Mason (Mrs. Patrick Grant)
  • oil on canvas
  • 29 1/4 by 24 1/4 in.
  • (74.3 by 61.6 cm)
  • Painted in 1804-05.

Provenance

Patrick Grant , Boston, Massachusetts, 1861(the sitter's son)
Henry Rice Grant ,1895 (his son)
Cortlandt Parker, Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, 1978
Private collection, San Francisco, California, 1980
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 2003

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Athenaeum, Gilbert Stuart Memorial Exhibition, August-September 1828, no. 52 (as Mrs. Patrick Grant)
Boston, Massachusetts, Copley Hall, Loan Collection of Portraits of Women, March 1895 (as Mrs. Patrick Grant)
Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design, 1914 (as Mrs. Patrick Grant)

Literature

George Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart, New York, 1897, p. 187
Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Work, New York, 1926, vol. I, no. 526, pp. 506-507
Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G. Miles, Gilbert Stuart, New York, 2004, illustrated p. 242

Condition

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