Provenance
The sitter's son, Lewis Tappan [1788-1873], Brooklyn, New York;[1] his daughter, Julianna Aspinwell Tappan [b. 1816], Brooklyn, New York;[2] bequeathed to her sister, Ellen A. A. Hulett [d. 1906], Newburgh, New York; bequeathed to her daughter, Margaret Hulett [d. 1947], Newburgh, New York, and Washington, D.C.;[3] sold to John F. Braun, Merion, Pennsylvania.[4] Purchased in 1933 by Clarence Winthrop Bowen [1852-1935], New York, New York, and Woodstock, Connecticut;[5] his daughter, Roxana Wentworth Bowen, Lady Gordon Vereker [1895-1968], Valbonne, France;[6] bequest 1970 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1828
- Exhibition of Portraits Painted by the Late Gilbert Stuart, Esq., Boston Athenaeum, 1828, no. 62
Bibliography
- n.d.
- Lewis Tappan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- 1834
- Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Tappan. New York, 1834: 4-5.
- 1870
- Tappan, Lewis. The Life of Arthur Tappan. New York, 1870: 412-413.
- 1915
- Tappan, Daniel Langdon. Tappan - Toppan Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Abraham Toppan of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1606-1672. Arlington, Mass., 1915: 24-25, 40-41.
- 1924
- Clarence Winthrop Bowen Papers, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.
- 1926
- Park 1926, 737-738, no. 820, repro.
- 1964
- Mount 1964, 300, 376.
- 1975
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: color repro. 386, 387.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 235, repro.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 383, no. 540, color repro.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 355, 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: 256-258, color repro. 257.
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