Portraits Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PA.093 |
Title |
Reverend Ezra Stiles |
Artist |
Moulthrop, Reuben, 1763-1814 |
Date |
1812 circa |
Description |
Portrait, copy after painting of 1794. Adult sitting male subject in clerical robes, knee-length view, facing left three-quarter turn, eyes facing forward. His right arm rests on the chair arm, his hand raised in a blessing; his left arm hangs down over the end of the armrest. The subject has blue eyes and wears a white wig and black clerical robes with a white cascading collar. He sits on a black and red chair in front of a brown background. |
Object Name |
Painting |
Medium |
Oil Paint |
Material |
Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-91.4 W-73.4 cm |
Credit line |
Gift of Mrs. E. L. Stone |
Provenance |
1892 - Gift of Mrs. E. L. Stone |
Inscription Location |
On reverse |
Inscriptions and Marks |
Copied from one taken from life for Emelea Stiles/Rev. Ezrae Stiles Call. Yal. Praes. Aetat. 67 1794 R. Multhorp pinx. |
Collection |
Painting |
People |
Stone, Mrs. E. L. Moulthrop, Reuben, 1763-1814 Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795 |
Notes |
Formerly #25. 1955 (May) Newport Historical Society annual meeting; 1969-70 (Oct -May) Wichita Art Museum traveling exhibition "American Paintings from Newport": Wilmington, Delaware; San Francisco, California; Wichita, Kansas; Cincinnati, Ohio; 1992 (4 July-13 Sept) Newport Art Museum "NewPortraits" |
Related Publications |
Annual Report 1891-92 (11) and 1954-55 (22); Annals (60-2) ; 1947 New-York Historical Society monograph by Mrs. William Sawitzky, wife of noted authority on American painting |