Portraits Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PA.019 |
Title |
Mary Winthrop Wanton |
Artist |
Feke, Robert, circa 1707-circa 1752 |
Date |
1740 circa |
Description |
Mary Wanton (1708-1767), the daughter of Ann Dudley and John Winthrop, and granddaughter of Governor Joseph Dudley of Connecticut, was married to Joseph Wanton. Portrait. Adult female subject in Colonial dress, waist-length view, facing left at three-quarter turn with head turned and tilted toward right, eyes facing forward. Her [ ] dress...... Her neck is bare with a low rounded decolletage softened with a border of lace. Her sleeves.......... Closely dressed [ light brown] hair parted in the middle and gathered in the back. The background is [ ] visible behind an oval shaped frame.... |
Object Name |
Painting |
Medium |
Oil Paint |
Material |
Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-76.2 W-63.5 cm |
Credit line |
Gift of Angelica Gilbert Gardiner |
Provenance |
Circa 1844 - Gift of Angelica Gilbert Gardiner |
Collection |
Painting |
People |
Gardiner, Angelica Gilbert, 1802-1844 Feke, Robert, circa 1707-circa 1752 Wanton, Mary, 1708-1767 |
Notes |
Formerly #30 (76 on 1859 list). A copy of this painting - without the flowers - was made by Jane Stuart in 1864 (Booklist Feb 1936); probably that which is now at the Massachusetts Historical Society. It may have been at this time the bouquet was added by Jane Stuart, supposedly at request of Redwood Directors. A restorer of the portrait, Arthur G. Clark, found that the bouquet covered a hole in the canvas, which was patched 1945 (19 Jan-18 Feb) Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design "Old and New England"; 1946 (8-30 Oct) Whitney Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; (2-10 Nov) Heckscher Art Museum, Huntington, Long Island; (27 Nov-22 Dec) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts: "Robert Feke, Native Colonial Painter"; 1954 Hunter House ; 1969-70 (Oct -May) Wichita Art Museum traveling exhibition "American Paintings from Newport": Wilmington, Delaware; San Francisco, California; Wichita, Kansas; Cincinnati, Ohio; 1984 (Feb-June) Bank of Boston's "Early New England Art and Commerce" 200th Anniversary exhibition; 1992 (4 July-13 Sept) Newport Art Museum "NewPortraits" |
Related Publications |
Annual Reports 1936 (24), 1944-45 (9), 1946-47 (20), 1954-1955 (22) and 1956-57 (23); ACC Restoration, Dolan; ACC Feke; 1860 (12 Nov), 1864 (12 Dec) and 1925 (26 Oct) Minutes; Annals (218 and 247); 1936 (Feb) Booklist ; Bryan (151); 1967 Book of the Artists by Tuckerman (48) ; 1925 National Patriot; 1971 "Robert Feke" by Mooz ( ); 1945 "Old and New England" by Washburn (31); 1946 "Robert Feke, Native Colonial Painter" by Goodrich (20) |