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Anna Maria Cumpston
Charles Peale Polkc. 1790
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Anna Maria Cumpston
- Creator: Charles Peale Polk
- Date Created: c. 1790
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 147 x 95.6 cm (57 7/8 x 37 5/8 in.) framed: 157.5 x 104.9 x 5 cm (62 x 41 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
- Provenance: Probably by descent from the sitter to her daughter, Emily Williams Cooper (Mrs. Colin Campbell Cooper), Philadelphia; probably her son, Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937), Philadelphia, or his sister, Emily, or his brothers, Samuel M. and Ned Cooper; (Victor Spark, New York, 1944); sold 1948 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;[1] gift 1953 to NGA. [1] A photograph of the painting in the Edgar Preston Richardson Papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., is inscribed "Victor Spark 1944." Spark described the previous owners of the painting as the sitter's direct descendants (letter of 4 March 1948, NGA curatorial file). Later he wrote that he bought the painting "in Philadelphia from a family with which Colin Campbell Cooper must have been closely connected as the house was filled with his works. I believe that the family's name was Cooper also." (letter of 18 October 1983, NGA curatorial file). Spark's papers, Archives of American Art, offer no information on the history of this painting. For information on Cooper and his relatives see James M. Hansen, _An Exhibition of Paintings by Colin Campbell Cooper_ (Santa Barbara, 1981), unpaginated and _The New York Times_ 7 November 1937, section 2, 9 (obituary).
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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