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Gilbert Stuart

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