About the Artwork
Master Charles William Park
between 1785 and 1790
Mather Brown
1761-1831
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 50 × 40 inches (127 × 101.6 cm) Framed: 57 5/8 × 47 1/2 × 2 3/4 inches (146.4 × 120.7 × 7 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
70.616
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower right: M. Brown. p.
Insribed, lower right corner: Cha. Will. Pa[r?]k | aged 13 17[?]
Provenance
dealer, Redhill (Surrey, England). 1967-1970, Leger Galleris (London, England). 1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hood, Graham, Kathleen Pyne, and Nancy Rivard. “American Paintings Acquired During the Last Decade.” Bulletin of the DIA 55, 2 (1977): pp. 79-80 (ill.).
Evans, Dorinda. Mather Brown, Early American Artist in England. Middletown, CT, 1982, pp. 54-55, no. 138 (fig. 34).
Shaw, Nancy Rivard et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1. New York, 1991, pp. 44-45 (ill.).
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Mather Brown, Master Charles William Park, between 1785 and 1790, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 70.616.
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