About the Artwork
Mary P. Fiske
1838
John Wilkie
active ca. 1840
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Overall: 30 × 24 7/8 inches (76.2 × 63.2 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Betsey Mast Reid in memory of her aunt, Jane Betsey Welling
1987.34
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on the reverse: Painted by John Wilkie | New Woodstock | Sept. 17th | 1838 | Mary P. Fiske | Aged 34 years
Label, on verso: These two primitives of the Pecks (F80.28 and F80.29) are to be given to the Detroit Institute of Art through Francis Robinson, Curator of American Art to whom I have long ago promised them. He has been here to see them and they want them. J B W (Jane Betsey Welling)
Provenance
Jane Betsey Welling (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
her niece, Betsey Mast Reid [Mrs. Gordon V. K. Reid]
1980-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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John Wilkie, Mary P. Fiske, 1838, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Betsey Mast Reid in memory of her aunt, Jane Betsey Welling, 1987.34.
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