Portraits Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PA.043 |
Title |
Louisa Anne Sterry |
Artist |
Jarvis, John Wesley, 1781-1840 |
Date |
1810-1811 circa |
Description |
Louisa Anne Sterry (b. 1784), born in New York City, married Robert Sterry, a lieutenant in the United States Army from Rhode Island. Coincidentally, a portrait of her mother, painted by Gilbert Stuart, hangs in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. Portrait. Adult female subject in veil, bust view, facing forward with head tipped slightly to the right. Subject has brown curly hair and brown eyes and wears a black, low-cut dress and white gauzy veil which falls down on either side of her face and over her shoulders. The background is dark brown. |
Object Name |
Painting |
Medium |
Oil Paint |
Material |
Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-49.5 W-41.9 cm |
Credit line |
Gift of Elizabeth du Fais in memory of her husband, John du Fais |
Provenance |
1946, August 01 - Gift of Elizabeth du Fais in memory of her husband, John du Fais |
Inscription Location |
on reverse |
Inscriptions and Marks |
Portrait of Mrs. Robert Sterry Louisa Anne, daughter of James Arden of New York and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Richard Deane and Mary Odlum [?] of Tullamon, King's Co., Ireland, born in New York 15 Feb. 1784, married in New York 11 Dec. |
Collection |
Painting |
People |
Fais, Elizabeth du Jarvis, John Wesley, 1781-1840 Sterry, Louisa Anne Arde, 1784-c.1830 |
Notes |
Significance: The painting was donated in the memory of John du Fais who designed the Delivery Room of the Redwood Library Formerly #66. 1969-70 (Oct -May) Wichita Art Museum traveling exhibition "American Paintings from Newport": Wilmington, Delaware; San Francisco, California; Wichita, Kansas; Cincinnati, Ohio |
Related Publications |
Annual Reports 1946-47 (22) and 1949-1950 (24); 1946 (Sept) and 1949 (Nov) Minutes; NCAB 40:(312) ; 1969 American Paintings from Newport by Boyle (62) |