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James Pitts

Date: 1757
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 50 1/8 x 40 in. (127.3 x 101.6 cm) Framed: 57 3/4 x 47 5/8 x 3 in.
Department: American Art before 1950
Classification: Paintings
Credit: Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
Accession No.: 58.357
Provenance: James Pitts (the sitter), Boston, to 1776; John Pitts (his son), Tyngsborough, Massachusetts; Thomas Pitts (his great grandnephew), Detroit; Mrs. Thomas Pitts, Detroit; S. Lendall Pitts (her son), Detroit; Mrs. S. Lendall Pitts, Norfolk, Virginia. DIA in 1958.
Keywords: canvas, oil, paint, three quarter length, portrait

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