Portrait of Amarinthia Elliott

ca. 1748

Jeremiah Theus American, 1719-1774

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Portrait of Amarinthia Elliott

Artwork Date ca. 1748

Artist Jeremiah Theus

Life Dates 1719-1774

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 15 3/4 × 13 5/8 inches (40 × 34.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2010.44

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Provenance

Barnard Elliott [d. 1758] and Elizabeth Boisgard Elliott [1717-1768 or 1771] (Charleston, South Carolina, USA);
their daughter, Amarinthia Elliott [1741-1822] (Charleston, South Carolina, USA);
her niece, Mary Bohun Baker (Mrs. Augustus Sachtleben) [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);
August 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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Published References

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.

Middleton, Margaret Simons. Jeremiah Theus: Colonial Artist of Charles Town. Columbia, South Carolina, 1953.

Miles, Ellen. “Jeremiah Theus.” American Colonial Portraits: 1700-1776. Exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery. Washington, D.C., 1987, p. 183.

Garrett, Elizabeth D. “Living with Antiques: A House in the North Carolina Piedmont.” The Magazine Antiques 152 (December 1997): pp. 846-853.

The Collection of Thomas A. Gray. Sales cat., Brunk Auctions. Asheville, North Carolina, 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.