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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Davis, Joseph H.,     Portrait group -- Family     Portrait male -- Otis, Daniel     Portrait female -- Otis, Daniel, Mrs. (Betsy Jeffrey)     Portrait -- Otis, Polly     Architecture interior -- Domestic     Primitive     Painting

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Otis and Child, (painting). Artist:  Davis, Joseph H., 1811-1865, painter. Title:  Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Otis and Child, (painting). Dates:  1834. Dimensions:  10 3/4 x 16 5/8 in. (27.3 x 42.2 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left:) Daniel Otis. Ages 46./years/.1834 (Lower center:) Polly Otis, aged 7 months / 1834 (Lower right:) Betsy Otis. Ages 40-/years/-1834 Description:  Seated profile portraits of Daniel Otis reading the newspaper (Great-Falls Journal) and his wife Betsy holding their baby daughter Polly on her lap. They are seated on brightly painted klismos chairs that flank a small table on which there are two books and a basket of fruit. On the wall behind them there is a banjo clock. And, on the floor there is an elaborately patterned floor cloth. Subject:  Portrait group -- Family Portrait male -- Otis, Daniel -- Full length Portrait female -- Otis, Daniel, Mrs. (Betsy Jeffrey) -- Full length Portrait -- Otis, Polly -- Child Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House Primitive Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 1972.263.6 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Burkhardt, Robert, 1950. Formerly in the collection of Garbisch, Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler, 1950-1972. References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Exh.catalog "Three New England Watercolor Painters,". Art Institute of Chicago, 1974. Avery, Kevin J., "American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, pg. 186. Illustration:  Avery, Kevin J., "American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, pg. 187. 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 36120932   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120932 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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