Lady Godiva, (sculpture).

Lady Godiva, (sculpture).

Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915, sculptor.

Lady Godiva, (sculpture).

Figure: H. 5 ft. 7 1/2 in.; Base: H. 2 1/2 in.

Portrait female -- Godiva, Lady

Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 North Harwood Street, Dallas, Texas 75201

Formerly in the collection of Whitwell, Frederick S., Mrs., 113 Marborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts 1926.

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114 until 1949.

Bromfield, Isadore, Mr. & Mrs., Milton, Massachusetts 1949-1974.

Bromfield, Isadore, Mrs. (Mollie), Milton, Massachusetts 1974-ca. 1976.

Tufts, Eleanor, Dr., ca. 1976-1991.

Comini, Alessandra, Dr., ca. 1976-2011.

Gift of Comini, Alessandra, Dr., Aug. 2011.

The sculpture was purchased by Mrs. Frederick S. Whitwell in 1926, and was later given to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. In 1949, the sculpture was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Bromfield at a sale of works owned by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. When the sculpture was owned by the Bromfields, it was installed outdoors on their property in Milton, Massachusetts until about 1976 when Isadore Bromfield's widow Mollie sold the property. Dr. Eleanor Tufts, who discovered the sculpture on the Bromfield property, purchased the work in 1976 for the collection she shared with fellow art historian and collector Dr. Alessandra Comini. When Dr. Eleanor Tufts died in 1991, the sculpture remained in the collection of Dr. Alessandra Comini until Aug. 2011 when she donated the sculpture to the Dallas Museum of Art in memory of Dr. Eleanor Tufts.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.

Inventory Staff, 2012.

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.

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