Mary Bellows Kinsley Gardner 1801-1839

James Frothingham American, 1786-1864
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About the Artwork

Mary Bellows Kinsley Gardner 1801-1839

1825

James Frothingham

1786-1864

American

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 27 1/4 × 22 1/8 inches (69.2 × 56.2 cm) Framed: 35 1/2 × 30 1/2 × 3 3/4 inches (90.2 × 77.5 × 9.5 cm)

Paintings

American Art before 1950

Bequest of Emma J. Farwell

53.78

This work is in the public domain.

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Inscribed, on back of canvas: Mary Bellows Kinsley Gardner | July 1825 | Aged 24 years

Provenance

until after 1898, descended in the sitter's family. 1931-1953, Emma J. Farwell (Detroit, Michigan, USA) [as by Gilbert Stuart]

1953, her estate

1953-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Peck, Thomas Bellows. The Bellows Genealogy. Keene, NH, 1898, p. 182. [as by Frothingham]

Richardson, Edgar P. “American Portrait Painting.” Bulletin of the DIA, 14, 1 (October 1934): p. 13. [as by Gilbert Stuart]

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Credit Line for Reproduction

James Frothingham, Mary Bellows Kinsley Gardner 1801-1839, 1825, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Emma J. Farwell, 53.78.

Mary Bellows Kinsley Gardner 1801-1839
Mary Bellows Kinsley Gardner 1801-1839