
Portrait of Mrs. Jonathan Mason
Auction Closed
April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Gilbert Stuart
1755 - 1828
Portrait of Mrs. Jonathan Mason
oil on panel
28¾ x 23½ in. (73 x 59.7 cm.)
Executed in 1805.
Mrs. Jonathan Mason, Boston
Herbert Cowpland Mason, Boston (grandson of the above, acquired by descent in 1836)
Mabel (Mason) Van Rensselaer, Newport, Rhode Island (daughter of the above, acquired by descent in 1884)
Honora Winthrop (Mason) Winston, Boston (acquired by bequest from the above in 1925)
Christie's New York, December 8, 1978, lot 3
Alexander Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0330 (acquired from the above on December 8, 1978)
Boston, Copley Hall, Loan Collection: Portraits of Women, 1895
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Collection of Early American Artists, 1895-96, no. 208
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1912-54 (on loan)
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Gilbert Stuart Memorial Exhibition, 1928, no. 39
Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Work, vol. II, New York, 1926, no. 533, pp. 512-13
Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Work, vol. IV, New York, 1926, p. 322, illustrated
William Howe Downes, "The Gilbert Stuart Exhibition in Boston," The American Magazine of Art, vol. 20, no. 1, January 1929, pp. 11-18
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilbert Stuart, 2004-05, fig. 137, illustrated
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. & Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, vol. I, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2014, illustrated
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