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Mary and Francis Wilcox
Joseph Whiting Stock1845
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Mary and Francis Wilcox
- Creator: Joseph Whiting Stock
- Date Created: 1845
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 122 x 101.6 cm (48 1/16 x 40 in.)
- Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Philo Franklin Wilcox, Springfield, Massachusetts, by 1845; by inheritance to their son, Frank P. Wilcox; his daughter, Theresa Wilcox Powers, by 1949; her niece, Josephine Powers Clapp [Mrs. R. Duncan Clapp], Sarasota, Florida, 1949-1953;[1] sold to (Peter Kostoff, Springfield, Massachusetts); sold 1953 to Edgar and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift 1959 to NGA. [1] Josephine Clapp, in a letter of 3 July 1974 to William Campbell (in NGA curatorial files), states that when she and Mr. Clapp inherited her aunt's house in Springfield, Mass., in 1949, they found this (and two other individual Stock portraits of the same children) in the attic. She sold the double portrait, as it was too large to hang in her home, but kept the other two until 1974.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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