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Thomas Wilmer Dewing

Portrait of Eleanor Hardy Bunker

signed and inscribed [to my] friend / Charles Platt / T.W Dewing (lower left)

oil on panel

14¼ by 11 in.

36.2 by 27.9 cm.

Executed circa 1893.

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Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Portrait of Eleanor Hardy Bunker

signed and inscribed [to my] friend / Charles Platt / T.W Dewing (lower left)

oil on panel

14¼ by 11 in.

36.2 by 27.9 cm.

Executed circa 1893.

Provenance

Eleanor Hardy Bunker and Charles Adams Platt, Cornish, New Hampshire (acquired directly from the artist circa 1893)

William A. Platt, Cornish (acquired by descent from the above)

Charles Platt, Cornish and New York (acquired by descent from the above)

Spanierman Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above on 15 January 1997 by the present owner

Exhibition

Cornish, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, The Cornish Colony 1885-1935, 1976, no. 7

Keene State College; Cornish, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site; Hanover, Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art; Durham, University of New Hampshire, University Art Galleries, A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin, 1985, no. 83, p. 82, illustrated, (titled Portrait of Mrs. Platt

Literature

Susan A. Hobbs, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Beauty into Art: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Haven, 2018, no. 86, pp. 217-19, illustrated in color