Joshua Johnson
Susanna Livina Harlen House
1814
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Frame: 37 11/16 x 31 11/16 in. (95.7 x 80.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville, Maryland
Object Number
2007.347
Woman in a grey dress with lace cap seated on a red side chair next to a dressing table with a basket of lace. Discoloration on skirt and hands.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2007; Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville, Maryland by purchase, 1997; from Olde Hope Antiques, Inc., New Hope, Pennsylvania by purchase, 1996; from a private collection in Ohio; Mrs. Oliver Perry House II, 1953; from her husband, Oliver Perry House II, 1860-1944; from his father, Oliver Perry House, 1814-1898; from his mother, the subject of the portrait, Mrs. Samuel House, 1773-1848
"Gifts of Art," BMA Today, Winter 2008-2009, pp. 12-13, ill. p. 12.
Inscribed: Stamp and handwritten information on back of frame from Fine Art Conservation, Inc. - "Lined to a synthetic fabric with beva film. This final varnish coating is saluva." Dated October 1996.
Markings: No marks
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