Mrs. Charles Apthorp (Grizzell Eastwick) (1709-1796), (painting).

Mrs. Charles Apthorp (Grizzell Eastwick) (1709-1796), (painting).

Feke, Robert, ca. 1707-ca. 1751, painter.

Mrs. Charles Apthorp (Grizzell Eastwick) (1709-1796), (painting).

50 x 40 in. (127.0 x 101.6 cm).

Portrait of Mrs. Charles Apthorp seated with her body turned to the left, her head turned to face viewer, her left hand holding an open copy of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" in her lap, and her right hand resting on the base of a large white column. She wears a brown silk dress with white ruffled cuffs, and a low-cut neckline adorned with a white ruffle and a pin. Her dark hair is pulled back from her face, with a small curl resting on her right shoulder. In the background there is an expanse of dark blue silk drapery on the right, a thick white column in the middle, and a rural landscape on the left.

Portrait female -- Apthorp, Charles, Mrs. (Grizzel Eastwick) -- Waist length

Object -- Written Matter -- Book

Architecture -- Detail -- Column

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118 Accession Number: 1979.7.42

Gift of Rockefeller, John D. III, Mr & Mrs, New York, New York

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York 1978.

Richardson, Edgar Preston, "American Art, A Narrative and Critical Catalog: an exhibition from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd," San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1976.

Burgard, Timothy Anglin, ed., "Masterworks of American Painting at the de Young," San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2005, pg. 13.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco collection printout, 2007.

Richardson, Edgar Preston, "American Art, A Narrative and Critical Catalog: an exhibition from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd," San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1976, p. 27.

Burgard, Timothy Anglin, ed., "Masterworks of American Painting at the de Young," San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2005, pg. 13.

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