Portrait of Mrs. James Smith Colburn (Sarah Dunn Prince)

Details

Gilbert Charles Stuart (1755-1828)
Portrait of Mrs. James Smith Colburn (Sarah Dunn Prince)
oil on cradled panel
28¼ x 23 in. (71.8 x 58.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1817.

Provenance

Mrs. James Smith Colburn, the sitter.
John Henry Colburn, Charleston, South Carolina, son of the above.
Sarah Jane Colburn, daughter of the above.
Gifted to the present owner from the above, 1910.

Literature

L. Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I, New York, 1926, p. 229, no. 176 and vol. III, p. 111, illustrated.

Special notice

This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

Lot Essay

Mrs. James Smith Colburn (née Sarah Dunn Prince) was the daughter of Captain Job and Elizabeth (Cutler) Prince of Boston, Massachusetts. Captain Prince was an affluent ship-master who commanded the ship Massachusetts, at the time the largest merchant ship in America.

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