Lovice Corbett Whittemore (Mrs. Thomas Whittemore)
1845
Artist, American, 1804 - 1887
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Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
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Accession
1950.8.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The sitter's husband, Thomas Whittemore [1800-1861]; probably the sitter [d. 1882]; by descent to her grandson, Thomas Whittemore [1871-1950];[1] gift 1950 to NGA.
[1] Following the death of her husband, Thomas Whittemore, in 1861, both the portrait and its pendant (NGA 1950.8.1, Thomas Whittemore) presumably remained in the possession of the sitter until her death in 1882, at which point they likely passed to her only surviving son, Joseph Whittemore [d. 1894] and subsequently to his wife, Elizabeth Whittemore [d. 1904] (who, in her husband's will, docket no. 37300, Middlesex County [Massachusetts] Probate Records, was named the recipient of all his personal property). Their sole surviving child was Thomas, the donor of both pictures to the NGA. See B.B. Whittemore, A Genealogy of Several Branches of the Whittemore Family, Nashua, New Hampshire, 1893: 27.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1968
Warner, Deborah Jean. Alvan Clark & Sons, Artists in Optics. Washington, 1968: 119.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 42, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 131, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 143, 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: 74-75, repro. 73
Inscriptions
on reverse of original canvas, now concealed by lining (photograph in NGA curatorial file): AEt 43 / 1845
Wikidata ID
Q20187460