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The Angus Nickelson Family, (painting). Artist:  Earl, Ralph, 1751-1801, painter. Title:  The Angus Nickelson Family, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1791 Medium:  Oil. Dimensions:  42 1/2 x 58 in. (108.0 x 147.3 cm). Description:  Portrait of Angus Nickelson, his wife, and seven children in formal attire in the family parlor lined with bookcases on one side and festooned windows on the other. Angus is seated in front of his desk and bookcase, a business card that reads "Angus Nicholson/merchant/New Milford" is held in his right hand. His two older sons, Samuel Malcolm and Angus stand next to him. His wife is seated on the opposite side of the room, in front of the festooned windows. She is flanked by the two youngest children, Mary Ann and baby Donald. In the middle of the family grouping are older daughters, Barbara and Ann, seated on a sofa, with Sarah standing next to them. Subject:  Portrait group -- Family Portrait male -- Nickelson, Angus -- Full length Portrait female -- Nickelson, Angus, Mrs. (Sarah Platt) -- Full length Portrait male -- Nickelson, Angus, Jr. -- Child Portrait male -- Nickelson, Samuel Malcolm -- Child Portrait male -- Nickelson, Donald -- Child Portrait female -- Nickelson, Mary Ann -- Child Portrait female -- Nickelson, Sarah -- Child Portrait female -- Nickelson, Barbara -- Full length Portrait female -- Nickelson, Ann -- Full length Architecture interior -- Domestic -- Living Room Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House Occupation -- Other -- Businessman Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Museum of Fine Arts, 220 State Street, Springfield, Massachusetts 01103 Accession Number: 69.01 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Munson, Annie Lee Butler, until 1926. Bailey, Kathleen Munson, until 1948. Gift of Munson, Robert Lewis, 1969. Remarks:  The painting descended through the family of Angus Nickelson. Angus Nickelson (1735-1804), who came to this country from Scotland in 1762 at the age of twenty-seven, became a leading citizen of New Milford, Connecticut, where he operated a prosperous iron works and marble quarry. References:  Museum of Fine Arts, 1972. Springfield MFA Bull. (June/July 1969), pg. 4. "Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: Springfield Library and Museums Association, 1999, pg. 56-58. Illustration:  Image on file. "Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: Springfield Library and Museums Association, 1999, pg. 56. 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 22930029   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 22930029 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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