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Miss Tweedy of Brooklyn, (painting). Artist:  Bears, Orlando Hand, 1812-1851, painter. (attributed to) Title:  Miss Tweedy of Brooklyn, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1845. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  41 x 33 in. (104.1 x 83.8 cm). Description:  Full-length portrait of Miss Tweedy seated with her legs crossed. She leans her left arm on a two-drawer chest and holds a flower in her right hand. The top drawer of the chest is open; a basket of flowers sits on top. A riverscape with sailboats is seen out a window at right. Another vase of flowers is at left. Subject:  Portrait female -- Tweedy, Object -- Flower Object -- Furniture -- Chest Landscape -- River Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202 Accession Number: 53.107 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Tweedy family, Brooklyn, New York Gift of Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1953. Remarks:  Formerly attributed to an unknown artist. References:  "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, no. 7. Detroit Institute of Arts, unpublished checklist, 1988. "Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965," Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965. Bishop, Robert, "Folk Painters of America," New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979. Lawson, Pamela Vail, Sag Harbor Historical Society, Sag Harbor, New York, 2008. Illustration:  Image on file. "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, pg. 29. Bishop, Robert, "Folk Painters of America," New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979, pl. 29. 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 24150033   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 24150033 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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