Portraits Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PA.002 |
Title |
Rachel Moore Allston Flagg |
Artist |
Allston, Washington, 1779-1843 |
Date |
1809 circa |
Description |
Rachael Moore Allston Flagg 1757-1839) was the mother of Washington Allston by her first marriage. After her husband’s death, she married Henry Collins Flagg. Portrait. Late middle-aged seated female in Colonial dress, waist-length view, facing left three-quarter turn with her hands clasped loosely in front. Subject has brown eyes and is wearing a white bonnet, a black dress with a white blouse and collar |
Object Name |
Painting |
Medium |
Oil Paint |
Material |
Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-76.8 W-64.1 cm |
Credit line |
The Gladys Moore Vanderbilt Széchényi Memorial Collection |
Provenance |
1991, December 22 - The Gladys Moore Vanderbilt Széchényi Memorial Collection |
Additional Inscriptions and Marks |
label (center back): "w/artist, subject; owner Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt" and address and possible artists signature? |
Inscription Location |
Label on back right |
Inscriptions and Marks |
Alice S. Hadik #[40?] |
Collection |
Painting |
People |
Szechenyi, Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess, 1887-1965 Hadik, John Béla Prevost, Cornelia Hadik Hadik, Andrew Hadik, Alexandra Hadik, Christopher Allston, Washington, 1779-1843 Flagg, Rachel Moore Allston, 1757-1839 |
Notes |
Formerly #153. Painted during the artist's 1809 visit to his mother following his first marriage to Ann Channing. (AAP) This painting is part of a collection of eight paintings given to the Redwood Library by descendents of Countess László Sechényi, a daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt (1843-1899). It was the wish of Countess Sechényi that the portraits remain together as a group in Newport. Since the family enjoyed a long association with the Redwood Library and a majority of the people depicted in the paintings are part of the history of Newport, it was felt that the Library was the appropriate repository for the portraits. |
Related Publications |
Annals (229, 331) ; 1899 The Life and Letters of Washington Allston by Flagg ( ); 1926 Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England: my ancestors part in that undertaking by Flagg (opp. 138); 1948 Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist by Richardson ( ); 1979 A Man of Genius: The Art of Washington Allston by Gerdts and Stebbins ( ); 1986 The Flagg Family:An Artistic Legacy and the Provenance of a Collection by Powell (74) |