About the Artwork
Mary Bellows Kinsley Gardner 1801-1839
1825
James Frothingham
1786-1864
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 27 1/4 × 22 1/8 inches (69.2 × 56.2 cm) Framed: 35 1/2 × 30 1/2 × 3 3/4 inches (90.2 × 77.5 × 9.5 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Bequest of Emma J. Farwell
53.78
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on back of canvas: Mary Bellows Kinsley Gardner | July 1825 | Aged 24 years
Provenance
until after 1898, descended in the sitter's family. 1931-1953, Emma J. Farwell (Detroit, Michigan, USA) [as by Gilbert Stuart]
1953, her estate
1953-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Peck, Thomas Bellows. The Bellows Genealogy. Keene, NH, 1898, p. 182. [as by Frothingham]
Richardson, Edgar P. “American Portrait Painting.” Bulletin of the DIA, 14, 1 (October 1934): p. 13. [as by Gilbert Stuart]
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Credit Line for Reproduction
James Frothingham, Mary Bellows Kinsley Gardner 1801-1839, 1825, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Emma J. Farwell, 53.78.
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