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Emily Binney, (painting). Artist:  Alexander, Francis, 1800-1880, painter. Title:  Emily Binney, (painting). Dates:  1839. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  47 x 38 in. with frame. Description:  Portrait of Emily Binney at age four and a half with pencil and paper in hand sitting on a sofa. She wears a white off-the-shoulder dress with white pantaloons and black shoes, and her hair is cut short due to illness. Subject:  Portrait female -- Binney, Emily -- Full length Portrait female -- Binney, Emily -- Child Object -- Written Matter Object -- Other -- Writing Tool Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Miller, Lyle W., T-642 State Route 109, Liberty Center, Ohio 43532 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Binney, Charles James Fox, 1839. Binney, George Loring, Binney, Ralph L., Toledo, Ohio until 1991. Acquired July 16, 1991. Remarks:  Painting was commissioned by Emily Binney's father Charles James Fox Binney in 1839, then to her brother George Loring Binney, and then to his son Ralph Binney. The painting was purchased by the current owner from the house sale on July 9, 1991. IAP files contain an excerpt from "Genealogy of the Binney Family in the United States," written by Emily Binney's father Charles James Fox Binney in 1886, which mentioned the portrait of his daughter Emily painted after her death in 1839, and a full-length marble statue of Emily by Henry Dexter installed in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. IAP files also contain an excerpt from the newsletter of the Friends of Mount Auburn (Fall/Winter 1994) describing the marble statue of Emily completed in 1842, which later deteriorated and was replaced in 1934 with a granite marker. References:  Old Time New England, Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Oct-Dec., 1953. Miller, Lyle W., 2014. Illustration:  Image on file. 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 73480135   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 73480135 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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