Painting (Portrait)

  • Title:

    Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (Mrs. Perez Morton)

  • Category:

    Paintings

  • Creator (Role):

    Gilbert Stuart (Artist)

  • Place of Origin:

    Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

  • Date:

    1802-1803

  • Materials:

    Oil paint; Wood panel

  • Techniques:

    Painted

  • Museum Object Number:

    1963.0077 A


  • Complete Details



Object Number

1963.0077 A

Object Name

Painting (Portrait)

Title

Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (Mrs. Perez Morton)

Category

Paintings

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Gilbert Stuart (Artist)
12/03/1755-07/09/1828
References: Barratt and Miles, Gilbert Stuart (New York & New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, c2004).

Place of Origin

Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Origin Notes

Painted while Stuart was living in Philadelphia.

Date

1802-1803

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Oil paint; Wood panel

Techniques

Painted

Dimensions (inches)

29.5 (H) , 23.5 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

74.9 (H) , 59.7 (W)

Measurement Notes

H at proper right stretcher. W at bottom stretcher.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Cooper, Wendy A. 2002 An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum.
Published: p. 162, fig. 7.
[Book] Richardson, Edgar P. 1986 American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
Published: pp. 94-5, no. 48, .
[Book] Gross, Robert A. & Kelley, Mary. 2009 An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790–1840.