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Mrs. John Pitts
Mrs. John Pitts

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Mrs. John Pitts

John Smibert(American, 1688-1751)

Date
1735
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Framed: 42 3/4 x 34 7/16 x 2 1/8 in. (108.59 x 87.47 x 5.4 cm) 36 1/8 x 28 3/4 in. 91.8 x 73.0 cm
Department
American Art before 1950
Classification
Paintings
Credit
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
Accession No.
58.353
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of: S. Lendall Pitts, Paris; Mrs. S. Lendall Pitts, Norfolk, Virginia, by 1949. On Loan to Mrs. Arthur Maxwll Parker, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Acquired in 1958.
Keywords
canvas, oil, paint, portrait

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