Elizabeth Fulford Welshman
1749
Painter, American, 1727 - 1792

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.)
framed: 106.7 x 86.3 x 5 cm (42 x 34 x 1 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1961.4.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Victor Spark, New York, New York); sold 18 December 1948 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;[1] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] Isaac John Greenwood, The Greenwood Family of Norwich, England, and America, Concord, NH, 1934, p. 58, and Alan Burroughs, John Greenwood in America, 1745-1752, Andover, MA, 1943, p. 72 both list the portrait as of Elizabeth Fulford Welsman, but do not give the location or owners' names. The sale in listed in an entry dated 18 December in Spark's 1948 ledger: "John Greenwood-comm [commission] 300-" (Victor Spark Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) He confirmed the sale in a letter to William Campbell, 7 May 1971 (NGA curatorial file). The Garbishes later recorded that the painting was found in Maryland; this information probably came from Victor Spark but does not appear in his records.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1987
American Colonial Portraits, 1700-1776, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 1987-1988, no. 46.
Bibliography
1934
Greenwood, Isaac John. The Green Family of Norwich, England, in America. Concord, New Hampshire, 1934: 58.
1943
Burroughs, Alan. John Greenwood in America, 1745-1752. Andover, Massachusetts, 1943: 72.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 62, repro., as Mrs. Welshman.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 167, repro.
1981
Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: 18, repro. 19.
1987
Saunders and Miles 1897, 172-173, no. 46, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 190, repro.
1995
Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 105-108, color repro. 107.
Inscriptions
center left: J. Greenwood pinx: / 1749.
Wikidata ID
Q20177976