About the Artwork
Mrs. Charles Carroll of Annapolis
1753 or 1754
John Wollaston
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American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 50 × 40 inches (127 × 101.6 cm) Framed: 60 3/4 × 52 × 4 7/8 inches (154.3 × 132.1 × 12.4 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford, II Fund
66.397
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Provenance
1753 or 1754-1761, the sitter, Mrs Charles Carroll (Annapolis, Maryland, USA)
1761-1832, her son Charles Carroll
1832-1868, his great-grandson, Charles Carroll McTavish
1868-1917, his daughter, Virginia Scott McTavish
1917-1947, her brother, Charles Carroll McTavish
1947-1964, great-great-great-grandson, Charles Bancroft Carroll. 1964-1966, Kennedy Galleries, New York. 1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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American Arts from the Pilgrims to the Revolution. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, p. 43, no. 120 (ill.).
Peck, William H. “A Portrait of Mrs. Charles Carroll of Annapolis by John Wollaston.” Bulletin of the DIA 46, 2 (1967): pp. 29-33 (ill.).
Weekley, Carolyn J. “Portrait Painting in 18th-Century Annapolis.” Antiques 111 (February 1977): p. 347.
Maier, P. The Old Revolutionaries, Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams. New York, 1980, p. 105 (ill.).
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John Wollaston, Mrs. Charles Carroll of Annapolis, 1753 or 1754, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford, II Fund, 66.397.
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