Mother and Child

c. 1810

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 153.7 x 105.4 cm (60 1/2 x 41 1/2 in.)
    framed: 171.1 x 121 x 10.2 cm (67 3/8 x 47 5/8 x 4 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.53

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Rose M. De Forest [Mrs. Augustus De Forest], New York); purchased 20 November 1919 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1921

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, December 1921, no. 5, as Marian (Bedell) Eckford by Robert Fulton.

1928

  • A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1928, no. 7, as Marian (Bedell) Eckford by Robert Fulton.

  • Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue, as Marian (Bedell) Eckford by Robert Fulton.

Bibliography

1922

  • Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. "Two Companion Portraits in Full-Length by Robert Fulton." Art in America 10, no. 3 (August 1922): 217-221, illus. 219.

1928

  • Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered, as Marian (Bedell) Beckford by Robert Fulton.

1929

  • Lee, Cuthbert. Early American Portrait Painters. New Haven, 1929: 310-311.

1930

  • Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. Early American Portraiture. New York, 1930: 42-43, repro. opp. 42.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 140, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 284, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 413, repro.

1998

  • Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 318-319, color repro.

Inscriptions

falsely signed, reverse: Painted by R F Fulton / for my friend Henry Eckford.

Wikidata ID

Q20182873

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