Mrs. Charles Davis (Eliza Bussey) (1783–1841)
Artist
Gilbert Stuart
American, 1755–1828
Datecirca 1808–1809
MediumOil on wood panel
Dimensions33 x 26 1/2 in. (83.8 x 67.3 cm)
Frame: 40 1/8 x 34 1/4 in. (101.9 x 87 cm)
Frame: 40 1/8 x 34 1/4 in. (101.9 x 87 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.32
On View
Not on view[1] Father of Mrs. Davis.
[2] Mrs. Thomas
[3] Daughter of Mrs. Davis.
[4] Mrs. Lawrence
[5] Levy Galleries inventory no. 10995A.
Published ReferencesGeorge C. Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879), listed 169.
Loan Exhibition of English and American Painting of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (exhibition catalogue) (Worcester: Worcester Art Museum, 1922), no. 32.
Lawrence Park, comp., Gilbert Stuart, 4 Vols. (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926), Vol. 1, cat. no. 215, illus. (b-w) Vol. 3, fig. 215.
Gilbert Stuart Memorial Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1928), no. 20.
W.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 36, illus. (b-w).
American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 55, illus. (b-w).
Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967) no. 18, illus. (b-w).
American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (brochure) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1975), no. 35.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed. Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 233.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 223.
Exhibition HistoryBoston, MA, Athenaeum Gallery, "Stuart's Portraits," 1828, no. 187.
Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, (Opening exhibition of the Evans Wing), September 20, 1915-September 1916.
Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, "Loan Exhibition of English and American Painting of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," December 11, 1921-January 8, 1922, no. 32 (lent by Mrs. Lawrence Park).
Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, "Gilbert Stuart Memorial Exhibition," October 24-December 9, 1928, no. 20 (lent by Mrs. Lawrence Park).
Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 7-October 19, 1975, no. 35.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Together Forever: Pendant Portraits from the Permanent Collection," April 18-September 26, 1999. (Closing date extended to October 10, 1999)
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