About the Artwork
Lucy Bradley
1794
Ralph Earl
1751-1801
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 44 1/8 × 31 1/4 inches (112.1 × 79.4 cm) Framed: 52 × 39 5/8 × 3 inches (132.1 × 100.6 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund
41.4
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, left lower center: R. Earl Pinx | 1794
Inscribed, left lower center: R. Earl Pinx | 1794
Provenance
Hudley and Lucy Bradley. 1918, the sitter's grandnephew, William Bradley (Greenfield Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA)
his daughter, Mrs. E. B. Morehouse (Greenfield Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA)
1941, her son, Louis E. Morehouse (Westport, Connecticut, USA)
1941-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Connecticut Portraits by Ralph Earl, 1751-1801. Exh. cat., The Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 1935, p. 9, no. 6.
Burroughs Clyde H. "Two American Portraits." Bulletin of the DIA 21, 1 (October 1941): pp. 2-3 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Ralph Earl, Lucy Bradley, 1794, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 41.4.
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