Elizabeth Fulford Welshman, 1749

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1961.4.1

Artists / Makers

John Greenwood (painter) American, 1727 - 1792

Image Use

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Inscription

center left: J. Greenwood pinx: / 1749.

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

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Spark, Victor D.

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.