About the Artwork
Mrs. James Pitts
1735
John Smibert
1688-1751
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 36 1/2 × 28 1/8 inches (92.7 × 71.4 cm) Framed: 43 3/4 × 35 1/2 × 3 7/8 inches (111.1 × 90.2 × 9.8 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
58.352
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
1883, the sitter's great-great grandson,Thomas Pitts
his son, S. Lendall Pitts [1875-1938] (Paris, France)
by 1949, Mrs. S. Lendall Pitts [1880-1963] (Norfolk, Virginia, USA). on loan to Mrs. Arthur Maxwell Parker (Helen Strong PItts) (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA). 1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Detroit Art Loan Exhibition. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1883, p. 64, no. 650.
Goodwin, D. Provincial Pictures by Brush and Pen. Chicago, 1886, pp. 14-15 (ill.).
Foote, H. John Smibert. Cambridge, 1950, pp. 160, 184.
Eight Generations of the Pitts Family. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1959, pp. 16-17 (ill.).
Payne, Elizabeth. “Pitts Family Portraits of the 18th Century.” Antiques 77, (January 1960): pp. 87, 89.
The Notebook of John Smibert. Boston, 1969, p. 93.
Saunders, R. The Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts American Paintings, Vol. 1. Detroit, 1987.
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John Smibert, Mrs. James Pitts, 1735, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 58.352.
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