LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas laid down on board
Measurements:
30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (height) by 25.00 in. (63.50 cm.) (width)
Literature:
Charles Coleman Sellers, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale (Philadelphia, 1952), p. 27, no. 20.
Provenance:
Probably Richard Barnes (d. 1804), Montpelier, Clear Spring, Maryland, brother of the sitter John Thomson Mason (1765-1824), Montpelier, Clear Spring, Maryland and Baltimore, nephew of the sitter Abraham Barnes Thomson Mason Barnes (1807-1863), son John Thomson Mason Barnes (1833-1913), Baltimore, son Elizabeth “Bettie” Mason (Barnes) Judson (1869-1940), daughter Mildred Mason (Pennypacker) Lewis (1906-1946) (Mrs. Arthur Hamilton Watson Lewis), Wilmington, Delaware and Providence, Rhode Island, niece Thence by descent in the family