Alice Key Pendleton

model 1870, carved 1870

Hiram Powers

Sculptor, American, 1805 - 1873

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Commissioned by the sitter's[1] husband, George Hunt Pendleton [1825-1889], Cincinnati; by inheritance to their daughter, Jane Frances Pendleton Brice [1860-1950, Mrs. Arthur Tilghman Brice]; gift April 1936 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Alice Key Pendleton (1823-1886), born Mary Alice Lloyd Nevins Key, was one of five daughters of Francis Scott Key, a Maryland lawyer and author of the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the niece of Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. She married the politician and diplomat George Hunt Pendleton in 1846.

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Exhibition History

2007

  • Hiram Powers: Genius in Marble, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 18 May - 12 August 2007, no. 31, repros. (credit line incorrect in caption to detail fig. 12).

Bibliography

2007

  • Reynolds, Rebecca. "Hiram Powers' Technique: The Art of Seizing a Likeness in Marble." Antiques & Fine Art (Summer 2007): 146, fig. 7..

Inscriptions

on back: H. POWERS / Sculp.

Wikidata ID

Q63864028

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