Provenance
(Victor Spark, New York, New York); sold 18 December 1948 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;[1] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] Isaac John Greenwood, _The Greenwood Family of Norwich, England, and America_, Concord, NH, 1934, p. 58, and Alan Burroughs, _John Greenwood in America, 1745-1752_, Andover, MA, 1943, p. 72 both list the portrait as of Elizabeth Fulford Welsman, but do not give the location or owners' names. The sale in listed in an entry dated 18 December in Spark's 1948 ledger: "John Greenwood-comm [commission] 300-" (Victor Spark Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) He confirmed the sale in a letter to William Campbell, 7 May 1971 (NGA curatorial file). The Garbishes later recorded that the painting was found in Maryland; this information probably came from Victor Spark but does not appear in his records.
Accession Number
1961.4.1
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.) | framed: 106.7 x 86.3 x 5 cm (42 x 34 x 1 15/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch