Edith Wharton
- Creation Date
- 1870
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Materials
- Canvas
Oil - Subjects
- Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Flower
- Dimensions
- 89.5 x 71.1 x 7.6cm (35 1/4 x 28 x 3")
73 x 60.3 x 3.8cm (28 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 1 1/2")
- Accession #
- NPG.82.136
- Object #
- 14003
- Credit Lines
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; This portrait was adopted by members of the National Portrait Gallery Commission in honor of Dan Okrent, chairman, 2004–8.
The sitter’s parents; the sitter; bequest to her niece Mrs. Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor Maine; sitter’s godson Colin Clark, England, [son of Kenneth Clark];(Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles); purchased 1982 NPG Letter from Jacob Zeitlin to Robert G. Stewart, 12 July 1982. Whatron stipulated in her will [1937] that her niece give the portrait tot Kenneth Clark’s son, her godson Colin. A photograph at Yale University, Beinecke Library, documents the portrait in her parents’ house in Newport, Rhode Island. See also correspondence with Erica Donnis, Curator of Collections, The Mount, Lenox, Mass. NPG curatorial file.
- Partner URL
- http://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.82.136
- Linked Data URI
- npg:object/14003
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