Jonathan Mountfort
Datec. 1753
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions24 1/2 × 29 1/4 inches (62.23 × 74.3 cm)
Credit LineFounders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
Object number58.360
ClassificationsPaintings
Curator NotesThree quarter length portrait of a young boy facing left holding wreath of flowers. He wears a teal blue coat, yellow waistcoat, white frilled shirt, green knee pants, and his hair is powdered white.
On View
Not on viewLocations
- Storage - Long-term Demo Museum (Hanover Square), East Wing, American Art, Paintings 3
ProvenanceThe sitter, Jonathan Mountfort, Boston, ca. 1753-85; his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Pitts [Elizabeth Mountfort], Boston (?); her daughter, Sarah Pitts Farlin, Detroit, by 1883; her great-nephew, S. Lendall Pitts, Detroit, by 1938; Mrs. S. Lendall Pitts, Norfolk, Virginia.
Acquired in 1958
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