Robert Street

American, 1796 - 1865

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The image shows a young child seated on a rock in a garden setting. The child has fair skin, rosy cheeks, large blue eyes, and curly brown hair. They wear a dark blue dress with a lace collar, and dark shoes with bows over white socks. The child holds a small hammer in their left hand. The background features lush greenery, a stone path, a small, white gazebo, and a picket fence with flowers.
Robert Street, George Washington Deal, 1834, oil on canvas, Gift of Edna L. Barbour, 1973.3.1

George Washington Deal

Robert Street · 1834 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1973.3.1

The image shows a woman seated in an ornate armchair. She has fair skin, blue eyes, dark hair styled in an updo, and is wearing a dark dress with puffed sleeves and a lace collar. She holds a red book and there is a double-strand pearl necklace around her neck. In the background, there is a column and a landscape with mountains under a cloudy sky.
Robert Street, Elizabeth Price Thomas, 1834, oil on canvas, Gift of Edna L. Barbour, 1973.3.2

Elizabeth Price Thomas

Robert Street · 1834 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1973.3.2

Bibliography

1840

  • Catalogue of Robert Street's Exhibition at the Artists' Fund Hall. Philadelphia, 1840: 15-16.

1945

  • Semon, Kurt M. "Who Was Robert Street." American Collector 14 (June 1945): 6-7, 19.

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: 132.