About the Artwork
The Todd Family
ca. 1785
Gilbert Stuart
1755-1828
American
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 48 1/4 × 66 3/4 inches (122.6 × 169.5 cm) Framed: 56 1/4 × 74 5/8 × 3 5/8 inches (142.9 × 189.5 × 9.2 cm)
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American Art before 1950
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
27.187
Public Domain
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Provenance
1922, William Burrough Hiel (Southampton, England).Eugene Bolton (London, England)
1927, dealer, Frank Sabin (London, England).
1927-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Park, Lawrence. Gilbert Stuart, Vol. 2. New York, 1926, no. 843.
Burroughs, Clyde. “The Todd Family by Gilbert Stuart.” Bulletin of the DIA 8, 8 (May 1927): pp. 96-97.
American Magazine of Art 19, 1 (January 1928): p. 45 (ill.).
Burroughs, Clyde. “Early American Portraits at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” Art in America 17 (October 1929): pp. 258-274.
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Works by Artists Born Before 1816, Vol. 1. New York, 1991, pp. 302-303 (ill.).
Evans, Dorinda. “Gilbert Stuart and Manic Depression, Redefining his Artistic Range.” American Art (Spring 2004): pp. 11-31 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
attributed to Gilbert Stuart, The Todd Family, ca. 1785, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 27.187.
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