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Elder, John Adams,
Portrait female -- Abbett, Thomas Middleton, Mrs. (Mary Ann Appler)
Painting
Mary Ann Appler Abbett (1810-1848), (painting).
Artist:
Elder
,
John
Adams
,
1833-1895
,
painter
. (
attributed
to)
Title:
Mary Ann Appler Abbett (1810-1848), (painting).
Dates:
ca. 1858-1860.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
28 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.
Subject:
Portrait female -- Abbett, Thomas Middleton, Mrs. (Mary Ann Appler) -- Bust
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Restricted Owner.
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Abbett, Henry M., Mr. & Mrs.,
Mason, Frances Chancellor Abbett,
Abbett, Henry Middleton & Jane Hall Chancellor,
Remarks:
Mary Ann Appler Abbett (1810-1948) of Washington DC, Lancaster County, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland, was the daughter of Dr. David Appler and the wife of Thomas Middleton Abbett.
The artist is an unknown Virginia
painter
. Painted posthumously after a circa 1831 portrait miniature of the subject by artist Anson Dickinson which remains in the family.
The painting descended to the sitter's son Henry M. Abbett (b. 1835) who married Jane Hall Chancellor (1837-1897) of Forest Hall, Chancellorsville, and Oak Grove, all in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Jane was the daughter of Major Sanford Chancellor and Frances Longwill Pound Chancellor. Jane was at Chancellorsville with her mother Fannie during the Union occupancy. The painting was inherited by their daughter Frances Chancellor Abbett Mason (1868-1938), an artist of Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia. The painting remained in the family until 2017.
The obituary for the sitter's son Henry notes that he was a spy for the Confederacy and was imprisoned at Fort McHenry, though he was one of the first to be exchanged. Henry's wife Jane was with her mother Fannie Pound Chancellor at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
References:
Owner, 2017.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 9D640426
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Inventory of American Paintings
9D640426
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