SHERMAN LIMNER (w.1785-1790)

Portrait of Maria Sherman (1774-1857)

Details

SHERMAN LIMNER (w.1785-1790)
Portrait of Maria Sherman (1774-1857)
now laid down on aluminum
Oil on canvas
24½ x 21½ inches

Provenance

Maria Sherman Hart (1774-1857)
Harriet Hart Palmer (1803-1842), daughter
Ira Hart Palmer (1836-1903), son
Henry Robinson Palmer (1867-1943), son
Henry Robinson Palmer, Jr. (1911-1993), son
Thence by descent to the present owner and consignor

Literature

F.B. Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, 6 vols, (New York, 1895-1912), vol. 5, pp. 287-289.
Susan Sawitzky, "Abraham Delanoy in New Haven," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly (April 1957).
Christine Skeeles Schloss, The Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries: Post-Revolutionary Portraiture in New England, 1785-1805 (Williamsburg, 1972), pp. 45-47, cat. no. 28.
Deborah Chotner, American Naove Paintings (Washington DC, 1992), pp. 346-347.

Exhibited

Stonington, Connecticut, Village Improvement Society, "Early American Portraits," August 20, 1925
New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allyn Museum, "Eighty Eminent Painters of Connecticut," March 9-April 20, 1947
Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, "The Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries," December 17, 1972-January 28, 1973
New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven Colony Historical Society, "The Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries," February 11, 1973-March 25, 1973

Lot Essay

Maria Sherman was the third child of John Sherman and Rebecca Austin Sherman. She married Ira Hart (1771-1829)in 1798. They moved to North Stonington, Connecticut where Maria, mother of five, passed away in 1857. (Schloss, p. 47).

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