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Accessibility:
Call No:
  • 1906.3.2
Title:
  • Desire Burrows Aborn Crapo
Author/Creator:
Place of Production/Origin:
Description:
  • Half length portrait of seated woman wearing a dark dress, white ruff, red stole and a white turban Her dark hair is in curls.
Date(s):
  • ca. 1823;
Collection Type:
Object Type:
Material(s):
  • oil
  • canvas
Medium(s):
  • Painting
Research Notes:
  • Married Philip Crapo
  • Alexander's ease at handling the decorative elements of portrait painting accounts for the greater success of his female portraits. Nonetheless, his early portraits all reveal a lack of anatomical modeling of form and a dullness in color tones. ~Frank Goodyear, 1974
Provenance:
Bibliographic References:
  • Goodyear Jr., Frank H. American Paintings in the Rhode Island Historical Society. Providence, RI: the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1974. Image 64, page 52.
Image ID Numbers:
  • https://RIHS.MINISISINC.COM/RIHS_IMAGE/RHiX173371w.jpg
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