Hannah Ackley Bush (1767-1807), 1791

| Attr. John Mackay or M’Kay
| oil on canvas
| 38 1/2 x 32 (97.79 x 81.28) (framed)
| signed, l.r., in red paint: ‘M’Kay/1791’
| Gift of Louise Pratt Harthan, 1896
| Weis 20, 22

Ex. Coll.: Sitters; to their daughter Cornelia Bush Pratt (b. 1784); in 1879 to her son John Bush Pratt (1808-95); to his sister, the donor.

Exhibitions:
1939, ‘Life in America for Three Hundred Years,’ Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 44.
1945, ‘Old and New England,’ Rhode Island School of Design.
1949, ‘From Colony to Nation,’ Art Institute of Chicago, no. 81.
1949, ‘Likenesses of America, 1689-1820,’ Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, no. 29.
1971, ‘Early American Paintings from the Collections of the Worcester Art Museum and the American Antiquarian Society,’ Worcester Art Museum.

Publications:
Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936), 98, plate 73.
Connoisseur (November 1939): 245-46.
Dresser, 1969, 726-27.
William Dunlap, History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (New York: George P. Scott & Co., 1834), 317.
Nina Fletcher Little, ‘Old and New England,’ Art News (January 15, 1946): 16.

 

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