About the Artwork
Reverend Ammi Ruhamah Robbins
1812
Reuben Moulthrop
1763-1814
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 31 3/8 × 27 1/2 inches (79.7 × 69.9 cm) Framed: 36 7/8 × 33 × 2 3/8 inches (93.7 × 83.8 × 6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Boyer and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Alger, Jr.
61.272
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
the Swift Family (Norfolk, Connecticut, USA)
a descendant, Mrs. Frederick Alger (later Mrs. Fred T. Murphy) (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
her daughter, Mrs. Harold R. Boyer and her son, Frederick Alger Jr. (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Thomas, Ralph W. “Reuben Moultrhop, 1763-1814.” The Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 21, 4 (October 1956): p. 100.
“Exhibition of Portraits by Fitch, Moulthrop, Trubull, and Richard and William Jennys.” The Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 26, 4 (October 1961): p. 111 (fig. 15).
Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume I. New York, 1991, p. 136, no. 59 (ill.).
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Reuben Moulthrop, Reverend Ammi Ruhamah Robbins, 1812, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Boyer and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Alger, Jr., 61.272.
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