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Portrait of Ellen and Mary McIlvaine

ArtistAmerican, born England, 1783–1872
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Portrait of Ellen and Mary McIlvaine
Date1834
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 25 × 29 3/4 in. (63.5 × 75.6 cm)
Frame: 33 3/4 × 38 1/8 × 3 7/8 in. (85.7 × 96.8 × 9.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dorothy Smith
Object number2025.787
Not on view

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Department
American Art
Object Type
Provenance[Christie’s New York, American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, December 11, 1981, lot 11]; First Interstate Bank of Texas by 1989; Purchased from the above by Gerald and Dorothy Smith, Houston, May 22, 1989; Gifted to the MFAH, 2025.
Exhibition HistoryN/A
Published References Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872) (Charleston: Garnier & Company, 1969), p. 220, no. 1160. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and dated on lower right: T.S. 1834
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Catalogue raisonnéEdward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872) (Charleston: Garnier & Company, 1969), p. 220, no. 1160.

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