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PAIR OF PORTRAITS OF GEORGE AND MARY CHANNING GIBBS

Creator: Gilbert Stuart
Offered by: Levy Galleries

Description
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
PAIR OF PORTRAITS OF GEORGE AND MARY CHANNING GIBBS
Circa 1798

Oil On Canvas

35 x 30 1/2 in.

Reference: Listed in Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works Compiled by Lawrence Park, Vol. I, page 346-348, numbers 326 and 328. George Gibbs, Sr. (1735-1803) was born in Newport, Rhode Island and knew Gilbert Stuart there growing up. Gibbs led a successful career as a grain merchant and ultimately founded the shipping firm, Gibbs and Channing . His portrait was exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum in 1836 and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1895. Gibbs married Mary Channing (1747-1824), also of Newport and the sister of his business partner, in 1787. Stuart painted her portrait circa 1803.

Provenance: Colonel George Gibbs (1776-1833); to his son Professor Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (1822-1908); to his sister Elizabeth Wolcott Gibbs (1819-1900), wife of Lucius Tuckerman; and through the family.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	18th Century
Creation Date:	1798
Styles / Movements:	Other
Incollect Reference #:	842773

Dimensions

W.	30.5 in;	H.	35 in;
W.	77.47 cm;	H.	88.9 cm;

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