Berniah Willet
ca. 1853
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 86.8 × 67.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-133568
In the early 1850s, John Mix Stanley had a studio on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., where he created these portraits of Berniah and Emeline Willet (see also 1982.104.2). The Willets lived around the corner from Stanley and often walked past his studio to get to their carpentry shop on Eleventh Street. Emeline was born in 1807 in Montpelier, Vermont, and moved to Charles Town, West Virgi…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George A. Haas
Registry history
- ca. 1853 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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