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Sarah Blake Sturgis
Francis Alexander1835
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Sarah Blake Sturgis
- Creator: Francis Alexander
- Date Created: 1835
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 61.3 x 46 cm (24 1/8 x 18 1/8 in.) framed: 77.2 x 64.5 x 7.3 cm (30 3/8 x 25 3/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
- Provenance: Samuel Parkman Sturgis [1803-1877], brother of the sitter, Canton, China; his brother, James Sturgis [1822-1888], Boston; his son, Charles Wilkins Sturgis [1849-1913], Boston. (Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus F. de Forest], New York); purchased 10 October 1921 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848 1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection on 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA. [1] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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