About the Artwork
Samuel Mountfort Pitts
1869
John Mix Stanley
1814-1872
American
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 48 1/8 × 36 inches (122.2 × 91.4 cm) Framed: 61 3/8 × 49 3/8 × 3 inches (155.9 × 125.4 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
58.364
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: Stanley 1869
Provenance
descended in the Pitts Family;1958, Mrs. Lendall Pitts (Detroit, Michigan, USA).
1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Blume. Transactions of the Supreme Court of Michigan, 1825-1836, Vol. 1, p. 42.
Detroit Free Press (April 29, 1868).
New York Independent (May 14, 1868).
Goodwin, D. Life and Services of James Pitts. Chicago, 1881, pp. 37-39.
Goodwin, D. The Dearborns. Chicago, 1884, p. 22.
Detroit News-Tribune (October 29, 1893).
ID (November 17, 1895).
Walker Scrap Book. Burton Historical Collection, Vol. 2, p. 19.
Burton, C.M., ed. The City of Detroit, Vol. 2, 1701-1922, p. 1258.
Eight Generations of the Pitts Family. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1959, pp. 38-39 (ill.).
“Pitts Family Portraits of the 18th Century.” Antiques (January 1960): pp. 87-89.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
John Mix Stanley, Samuel Mountfort Pitts, 1869, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 58.364.
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