Mary (Polly) Lawton Bringhurst

Art Institute of Chicago

Mary (Polly) Lawton Bringhurst

James Peale (American, 1749–1831)LinkedCulture matchlcp-539d9be23c11

Date
1790
Medium
Watercolor on ivory (recto), sepia on ivory with human hair (verso), and gold
Culture
Philadelphia
Department
Arts of the Americas
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
8250

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Credit line
Mary Louise Stevenson Fund
Provenance
John Bringhurst (1764–1800), Philadelphia, by 1793 [Leach 1901, 38]; likely by descent to his son, John Bringhurst, Jr. (1792–1803), Newport, RI, by 1800; by descent his uncle, Robert Lawton, Jr. (1772–1853), Providence, RI, by 1803 [this and the following according to Newport Mercury Aug. 26, 1876, 2]; by descent to his son, Anthony Lawton (1816–1893), Troy, NY, by 1853; to his son, George Perkins Lawton (1846–1924), Saratoga Springs, NY and New York, by 1876. James Graham and Sons, New York, by 1958 [incoming receipt, RX2675, Dec. 5, 1958; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958.

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Object type
AAT300427607

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