John Stevens Ellery

Details

Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
John Stevens Ellery
oil on panel
26¼ x 21½ in. (66.7 x 54.6 cm.)
Painted in 1810.

Provenance

Sarah Stevens, sister of the sitter, Boston, Massachusetts.
Ignatius Sargent, son of the above, Brookline, Massachusetts, by bequest of the above.
Professor Charles Sprague Sargent, son of the above, Brookline, Massachusetts, by bequest of the above.
Miss Alice Sargent.
Ignatius Sargent, Washington, D.C., by 1935.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1980.

Literature

An Exhibition of Portraits Painted by the late Gilbert Stuart, Esq. died 1828, exhibition catalogue, Boston, Massachusetts, 1828, p. 9, no. 151.
L. Park, Gilbert Stuart, An Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue, New York, 1926, vol. 1, p. 309, vol. 2, p. 962, vol. 3, p. 167, no. 277, illustrated.
C.M. Mount, Gilbert Stuart: A Biography, New York, 1964, p. 367.

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, An Exhibition of Portraits Painted by the late Gilbert Stuart, Esq. died 1828, 1828, no. 151.
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, 1935.
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Acquisitions Since 1975, November 5, 1982-January 16, 1983.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

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John Stevens Ellery was a French merchant who accumulated a large fortune while living in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts before moving to New York. The present work was painted for the sitter's sister, Sarah Stevens, who was the wife of Major Ignatius Sargent of Boston.

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