Lucy Tappan Bowen (Mrs. Henry C. Bowen)

1859

Francis Bicknell Carpenter

Artist, American, 1830 - 1900

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Lady Vereker

  • Dimensions

    overall (oval): 142.7 x 111.4 cm (56 3/16 x 43 7/8 in.)
    framed: 179.1 x 147.3 x 11.4 cm (70 1/2 x 58 x 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1961.10.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The sitter's husband, Henry C. Bowen [1813-1896], New York, and Woodstock, Connecticut; his son, Clarence Winthrop Bowen [1852-1935], New York, and Woodstock, Connecticut; his daughter, Roxana Wentworth Bowen [later Mrs. William Stephen Van Rensselaer and Lady Gordon Vereker, 1895-1968], Valbonne, France; gift 1961 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1860

  • Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1860, no. 197, as A Lady.

1862

  • The Third [annual] Exhibition, Brooklyn Art Association, March 1862, no. 113, as Portrait.

Bibliography

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 20, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 32, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 37, repro.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 49-51, color repro.

Inscriptions

center left: F.B. Carpenter / 1859.

Wikidata ID

Q20188408

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