95.3 x 82.6 x 7.6cm (37 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 3") 76.2 x 63.5 x 3.8cm (30 x 25 x 1 1/2")
Accession #
NPG.98.71
Object #
57983
Credit Lines
The sitter; his wife, Caroline LeRoy Webster; Mary Tynan, a servant in the Webster's household, by 1888; (a “curiosity and junk shop,” New York); purchased by George S. Hellman by 1902; offered at auction by Hellman at The Anderson Galleries, New York on November 21, 1919; Hackett Galleries, New York, by 1930; sold around 1930 to John Hay Whitney; Betsey Cushing Whitney, his wife; Bequest of Betsey Cushing Whitney 1998 Note: History is from George S. Hellman to Mrs. Helen Hackett, Hackett Galleries, 8 October 1930. He noted “I have among my papers a signed statement of Mary Tynan, and might be able to find it among my many boxes.” National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; bequest of Mrs. John Hay Whitney
