Samuel Mountfort Pitts

John Mix Stanley American, 1814-1872
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About the Artwork

Samuel Mountfort Pitts

1869

John Mix Stanley

1814-1872

American

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 48 1/8 × 36 inches (122.2 × 91.4 cm) Framed: 61 3/8 × 49 3/8 × 3 inches (155.9 × 125.4 × 7.6 cm)

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American Art before 1950

Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

58.364

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Signed and dated, lower right: Stanley 1869

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Provenance

descended in the Pitts Family

1958, Mrs. Lendall Pitts (Detroit, Michigan, USA). 1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Blume. Transactions of the Supreme Court of Michigan, 1825-1836, Vol. 1, p. 42.

Detroit Free Press (April 29, 1868).

New York Independent (May 14, 1868).

Goodwin, D. Life and Services of James Pitts. Chicago, 1881, pp. 37-39.

Goodwin, D. The Dearborns. Chicago, 1884, p. 22.

Detroit News-Tribune (October 29, 1893).

ID (November 17, 1895).

Walker Scrap Book. Burton Historical Collection, Vol. 2, p. 19.

Burton, C.M., ed. The City of Detroit, Vol. 2, 1701-1922, p. 1258.

Eight Generations of the Pitts Family. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1959, pp. 38-39 (ill.).

“Pitts Family Portraits of the 18th Century.” Antiques (January 1960): pp. 87-89.

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John Mix Stanley, Samuel Mountfort Pitts, 1869, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 58.364.

Samuel Mountfort Pitts
Samuel Mountfort Pitts