Portrait of Frances C. Houston
ca. 1880-1889
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.7 × 36.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-137855
Thomas Wilmer Dewing painted his vivacious friend in a seventeenth-century costume in the spirit of Frans Hals or Diego Velázquez, two of their favorite old masters. He wrote to the editor of Century Magazine, praising Houston's "sense of style." Dewing and Frances had studied in Paris, where both artists would have made head studies like this one. After she returned to the United States, Frances…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly
Registry history
- ca. 1880-1889 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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