Portrait of a Boy, probably of the Crossfield Family, (painting).

Portrait of a Boy, probably of the Crossfield Family, (painting).

Williams, William, 1727-1791, painter.

Portrait of a Boy, probably of the Crossfield Family, (painting).

Master Stephen Crossfield (1765-1790), (painting).

52 1/4 x 35 3/4 in. (132.7 x 91 cm).

Portrait of a young boy standing in a landscape, his dog seated on his left. The boy holds a shuttlecock in his left hand and a battledore racket in his right hand, ready to play the eighteenth-century game similar to badminton.

Portrait male -- Crossfield, Stephen -- Child

Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Badminton

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 65.34.

Formerly in the collection of Crossfield, family of, until 1965.

Nathan Liverant and Sons, Colchester, Connecticut 1965.

The painting descended in the Crossfield family and was originally thought to be a portrait of Stephen Crossfield, Sr., the New York shipbuilder and landowner, and was thought to have been painting ca. 1730-1740. When the artist attribution changed to William Williams, and the execution date changed to ca. 1770-1775, the identity of the sitter was thought to be Crossfield's son, also named Stephen Crossfield. He was born on July 10, 1765 and died on May 8, 1790.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.

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. 45.

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. 46.

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