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To The Memory of the Benevolent Howard, (painting). Artist:  Hensel, Salome, painter. Title:  To The Memory of the Benevolent Howard, (painting). Dates:  1823. Medium:  Watercolor on velveteen. Dimensions:  25 x 32 1/2 in. (63.5 x 82.6 cm) Inscription:  (Center right, on monument:) TO/THE/MEMORY/OF THE/BENEVOLENT/HOWARD Description:  Theorem painting with four figures gathered near a gravestone. A town is seen beyond the waterscape with boats at left. Subject:  Primitive -- Theorem Figure group Architecture -- Monument -- Gravestone Waterscape -- Boat Cityscape -- Town Object Type:  Painting Owner:  National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20565 Accession Number: 1971.83.22 (2862) Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Hensel, Salome, Knight, Emily C. Albright, Mrs., by 1886. Carlen, Robert, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Gift of Garbisch, Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler, Remarks:  A label that was once afixed to the back reads: "This painting was done in 1823 by Salome Hensel eldest daughter of George and Catherine Noon Hensel. Salome was afterwards Mrs. Salome Hensel Albright wife of George Albright. The picture came into the possession of their daughter Mrs. Emily C. Albright Knight wife of Dr. H. D. Knight and was framed for them Nov. 1886." References:  Chotner, Deborah, "American Naive Paintings," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992. National Gallery of Art, 1988, 1990. Illustration:  Chotner, Deborah, "American Naive Paintings," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992, pg. 181. 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 08600979   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 08600979 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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