Louise Coast Yewell

ca. 1870

The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States

This bust depicts Louise Coast Yewell, the wife of the American portrait painter, George H. Yewell of Iowa. It was apparently never enlarged or cut in marble. Louise and her husband spent about 11 years in Italy from 1867.

Details

Title: Louise Coast Yewell
Creator: William Henry Rinehart (American, 1825-1874)
Date Created: ca. 1870
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Roles: Sculptor: William Henry Rinehart (American, 1825-1874)
Provenance: Charles Mason Remey, Washington, D. C. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, October 1945, by gift.
Object Type: portraits; busts
Medium: plaster
Exhibitions: Rinehart's Studio: Rough Stone to Living Marble. 2015.
Dimensions: H: 11 x W: 6 5/8 x D: 4 3/4 in. (28 x 16.8 x 12 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Charles Mason Remey, 1945
Classification: Sculpture
Accession Number: 28.16

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