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Elijah Boardman (1760-1823), (painting). Artist:  Earl, Ralph, painter. Title:  Elijah Boardman (1760-1823), (painting). Dates:  1789. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  83 x 51 in. (210.8 x 129.5 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left:) R. Earl pinxt 1789 signed Description:  Portrait of Elijah Boardman in his dry goods store, standing in front of a desk below which are three shelves filled with a variety of books. Through a door to the left there are bolts of fabric --cottons, linens, muslins, and silks stacked on shelves. Subject:  Portrait male -- Boardman, Elijah -- Full length Architecture interior -- Commercial -- Store Object -- Written Matter -- Book Occupation -- Other -- Businessman Occupation -- Political -- State Congressman Occupation -- Political -- State Senator Occupation -- Political -- Senator Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 1979.395 Provenance:  Tyler, Cornelius Boardman, Plainfield, New Jersey until 1955. Tyler, Cornelius Boardman, Mrs. (Susan W. Tyler), Fairfield, New Jersey 1955-1979. References:  Williams, Hermann Warner, "Mirror to the American Past: a survey of American genre painting, 1750-1900," Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society. 1973. Goodrich, Laurence B., "Ralph Earl: Recorder for an Era," Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1967, #25. Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 144. Illustration:  Image on file. Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 145. 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 81470004   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 81470004 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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