Matilda Davis Williams
ca. 1791-1792
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 75.3 × 63 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-138301
Matilda Davis was the daughter of Caleb Davis, an important Boston merchant and shipowner and Speaker in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She married Jeremiah Williams in 1787, just three years before she died at the age of twenty-two, and in this image she wears a miniature portrait of her husband. Christian Gullager created this portrait posthumously, probably from an existing painti…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Registry history
- ca. 1791-1792 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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