Maria Catherine Smith (c. 1670-1706), c. 1690

| Anonymous
| formerly considered the work of Thomas Smith (d. c. 1690)
| oil on canvas
| 27 x 25 1/4 (68.58 x 64.14)
| Gift of Edmund Drianan Barry in memory of Catherine Humphreys Barry, 1934
| Weis 104

Ex. Coll.: Sitter; to her daughter Catherine Mears Dexter (1701-97); to her daughter Rebecca Dexter Clap (1739-1823); to her daughters Rebecca (1784-1855) and Catherine (1782-1872) Clap; to their niece Catherine Clap Barry; to her nephew the Reverend Charles Alfred Humphreys; to his daughter Catherine Humphreys Barry; to her husband, the donor.

Exhibitions:
1934, ‘XVIIth Century Painting in New England,’ Worcester Art
Museum.
1945, ‘Old and New England,’ Rhode Island School of Design.
1975, ‘The Colonial Epoch in America,’ Worcester Art Museum.

Publications:
Dresser, 1935, 139-40, 171.
Dresser, 1969, 719.
Oskar Hagen, The Birth of the American Tradition in Art (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1949), 37.
Gordon Washburn, The Catalog of Old and New England (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1945), 30.

 

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