Timothy Swan (1758-1842), c. 1797

| Anonymous
| oil on canvas
| 40 1/4 x 33 1/2 (102.24 x 85.09)
| Gift of Frances S. Shedd, 1952

Ex. Coll.: Sitter; to his daughter Emily Cordelia Swan (1793-1856); to her sister Charlotte Swan Shedd (1796-1866); to her son Timothy Swan Shedd (1833-1917); to his daughter, the donor.

Exhibitions:
1952-72, loaned to the Worcester Art Museum; exhibited occasionally.
1957, ‘Little Known Connecticut Artists,’ Connecticut Historical Society, no. 28.
1962, loaned to the Antiquarian and Landmark Society, Suffield, Connecticut, for exhibition in the Timothy Swan house.
1971, ‘Early American Paintings from the Collections of the Worcester Art Museum and the American Antiquarian Society,’ WAM.
1973, ‘Music in Colonial America,’ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1976, ‘Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1800,’ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 12.
1990, ‘Between the Rivers: Itinerant Painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson,’ Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
1998, ‘Vernacular Landscape Painting from Brueghel to Grandma Moses,’ Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont.

Publications:
Anna Brightman, ‘Window Curtains in Colonial Boston and Salem,’ The Magazine Antiques 86 (August 1964): 184.
Colleen Heslip, Between the Rivers: Itinerant Painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson (Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, 1990), 38-39.
Nina Fletcher Little, ‘Little Known Connecticut Artists,’ Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 22 (October 1957): 126.
Nina Fletcher Little, ‘Little Known Connecticut Limners, 1790-1810,’ Art in America 45 (Winter 1957-58): 74 (with incorrect caption).
Nina Fletcher Little, Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1880 (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1976), 44-55.
Nina Fletcher Little, ‘Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1800,’ The Magazine Antiques 110 (November 1976): 995.

 

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