About the Artwork
Portrait of Amarinthia Elliott
ca. 1748
Jeremiah Theus
1719-1774
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Overall: 15 3/4 × 13 5/8 inches (40 × 34.6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
2010.44
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Barnard Elliott [d. 1758] and Elizabeth Boisgard Elliott [1717-1768 or 1771] (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
his daughter, Amarinthia Elliott [1740 or 1741-1822] (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
her niece, Mary Bohun Baker [1828-1907] (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
her daughter, Mrs. John Drayton Grimke-Drayton (Charleston, South Carolina, USA). 1980 C.G. Sloan's Auctioneers (Washington, D.C., USA)
James (Jim) A. Williams (Mercer House, Savannah, Georgia)
1984, sold by him while in prison, through his agent, Peter Scherwin
Thomas A. Gray (Salem, North Carolina, USA)
2010-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue of Articles and Owners in Loan Exhibit; Colonial and Revolutionary Relics Given by the South Carolina Society of Colonial Dames of America. Charleston, 1896, p. 2, no. 34.
Garrett, Elizabeth D. “Living with Antiques: A House in the North Carolina Piedmont.” The Magazine Antiques 152 (December 1997): pp. 846-853.
Miles, Ellen. “Jeremiah Theus.” American Colonial Portraits: 1700-1776. Exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery. Washington, D.C., 1987, p. 183.
Middleton, Margaret Simons. Jeremiah Theus: Colonial Artist of Charles Town. Columbia, SC, 1953.
The Collection of Thomas A. Gray. Sales cat., Brunk Auctions. Asheville, NC, 2010, lot 0029.
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Jeremiah Theus, Portrait of Amarinthia Elliott, ca. 1748, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 2010.44.
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