Roxana Atwater Wentworth

1876

George Peter Alexander Healy

Associated Names
George Peter Alexander Healy

Artist, American, 1813 - 1894

The image displays a woman in a side profile position, with delicate facial features, fair skin, rosy cheeks, and lips. She has dark, wavy hair styled away from her face, wearing a high-collared black dress with a white ruffled trim. Two roses, one yellow and one pink, are pinned to her chest. The background is muted green with part of a red chair visible behind her. The artist's signature and the year "1876" are inscribed in the top left corner.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Lady Vereker

  • Dimensions

    overall: 76.8 x 63.5 cm (30 1/4 x 25 in.)
    framed: 97.8 x 85.1 x 6.4 cm (38 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1970.34.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Wentworth [1815-1888], Chicago, from 1876; his daughter, the sitter, Roxana Atwater Wentworth [later Mrs. Clarence Winthrop Bowen, 1854-1935], New York; her daughter, Roxana Wentworth Bowen [later Mrs. William Stephen Van Rensselaer and Lady Gordon Vereker, 1895-1968], Valbonne, France; her estate; bequest 1970 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary George P. Shultz, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1985-1989.

1989

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador Henry A. Catto, U.S. Embassy residence, London, England, 1989-1991.

1991

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador Raymond G. H. Seitz, U.S. Embassy residence, London, England, 1991-1994.

Bibliography

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 173, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 197, 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: 298-300, color repro.

Inscriptions

center left: G.P.A. Healy. / 1876.

Wikidata ID

Q20188822

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