Frances Ludlum Morris (Mrs. Robert Morris) (?), 1838

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 91.1 x 74.3 cm (35 7/8 x 29 1/4 in.)

framed: 116.8 x 99.1 x 4.4 cm (46 x 39 x 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.96

Artists / Makers

Frederick R. Spencer (artist) American, 1806 - 1875

Image Use

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Provenance

(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York); purchased 8 April 1922 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York) to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
de Forest, Rose M.

Exhibition History

1923: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, 1923, no. 15.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue.

1969: Painted by F. R. Spencer: A Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Frederick R. Spencer 1806-1875, Fountain Elms, Utica, New York, 1969, no. 16 (exhibition co-sponsored by Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute and The Oneida Historical Society, Utica,NY).

Bibliography

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered.

1969: Crosier, Susan C. A Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Frederick R. Spencer 1806-1875. Exh. cat. Oneida Historical Society, Utica, New York, 1969.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 100, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 224, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 340, repro.

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: 129-131, repro.