LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

19.69 in. (50.00 cm.) (height) by 15.94 in. (40.50 cm.) (width)

Literature:

F.S. McGrath, “A Letter to Eileen,” Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. XXIV, December 1929, p. 299. F.S. McGrath, Pillars of Maryland, Richmond, VA, 1950, p. 393. C.C. Sellers, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, n.s., vol. XLII, pt. 1, Philadelphia, 1952, no. 68, repr. P. 277. L.B. Miller, ed., The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family, New Haven, CT, 1983, vol. I, p. 104-105, 153. A. Ribeiro, The Dress at Masquerades in England, 1730 to 1790, and Its Relation to Fancy Dress in Portraiture, New York and London, 1984, p. 215, repr. P. 231 (misidentified as by R. Livesay). L.B. Miller and D.C. Ward, eds., New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991, p. 53.

Provenance:

The artist’s studio, until 1775 Elizabeth Bordley Gibson (1777-1863), Baltimore, sister of the subjects Elizabeth Bordley Belt McGrath (1842-1926), great niece Lady Frances Hadfield (née Frances Belt Wickersham) (1862-1950), London, niece Sims McGrath, Tenants Harbor, Maine, to 1988, second cousin Margaret (Peggy) Rockefeller (1915-1996), October 1990, sister