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Alice Key Pendleton
Hiram Powersmodel 1870, carved 1870
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Alice Key Pendleton
- Creator: Hiram Powers
- Date Created: model 1870, carved 1870
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 67.31 × 50.17 × 29.21 cm (26 1/2 × 19 3/4 × 11 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter's[1] husband, George Hunt Pendleton [1825-1889], Cincinnati; by inheritance to his daughter, Jane Frances Pendleton Brice [1860-1950, Mrs. Arthur tilghman Brice]; gift April 1936 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Alice Key Pendleton (1823-1886), born Mary Alice Lloyd Nevins Key, was one of five daughters of Francis Scott Key, a Maryland lawyer and author of the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the niece of Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. She married the politician and diplomat George Hunt Pendleton in 1846.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: marble
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