About the Artwork
Mrs. Bradford Ripley Alden and her Children
1852
Robert Walter Weir
1803-1889
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 32 1/8 x 25 7/8 in. Framed: 41 x 34 3/4
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
2009.71
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: Robt. W. Weir | 1852
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Provenance
Bradford Ripley Alden (West Point, New York, USA)
his wife, Anne Carolina Colemna Alden
her daughter, Sarah Coleman Alden Derby
her brother Robert Percy Alden
his cousin, Mrs. Margaret "Minnie" Coleman Freeman
Sarah Coleman Alden Derby's son, Roger Derby
his granddaughter, Lisa Derby Middione
by descent in the family
2009-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Aherns, Kent. "The Portraits by Robert W. Weir." American Art Journal 6 (May 1974): pp. 13, 16 (ill.).
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Robert Walter Weir, Mrs. Bradford Ripley Alden and her Children, 1852, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 2009.71.
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