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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Budington, Jonathan,     Portrait group -- Family     Portrait male -- Eliot, George     Portrait female -- Eliot, George Mrs. (Patience Lane)     Portrait male -- Eliot, Ely August     Object -- Written Matter     Dress -- Accessory     Dress -- Accessory     Primitive     Painting

George Eliot and Family, (painting). Artist:  Budington, Jonathan, 1779-1823, painter. Title:  George Eliot and Family, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1796. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  44 5/8 x 55 7/8 in. Inscription:  (Lower left, red vermillion pigment:) J. Budington Pinxt 179(?) signed Description:  Family portrait of George Eliot Jr., his wife Patience Lane and their son Ely August. The two adults are seated in red chairs; the son stands between them. The father holds a book in his lap; and the son is showing an open book to his mother. The mother is dressed in a blue dress, with white lace collar and ruffled 3/4 length sleeves, and a white bonnet. Her proper right arm rests on a table with green cloth with gold fringe, and dangling from her wrist is a white purse with red flowers. Behind the figures is a shelf of leather bound books and red drapery. Subject:  Portrait group -- Family Portrait male -- Eliot, George -- Knee length Portrait female -- Eliot, George Mrs. (Patience Lane) -- Knee length Portrait male -- Eliot, Ely August -- Child Object -- Written Matter -- Book Dress -- Accessory -- Hat Dress -- Accessory -- Handbag Primitive Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 Accession Number: 1983.98 Provenance:  Gift of Eliot, Jared B. A., Rev., descendants of, Gift of Eliot, Nellie P., relatives of, References:  Folk Art, vol. 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997), pg. 41-49. "Handbook of the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992. Illustration:  Image on file. "Handbook of the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992, pg. 14. Folk Art, vol. 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997), pg. 43. 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 73261621   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 73261621 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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