Udney Maria Blakeley (1815–1842)

Artist Thomas Sully American, born Great Britain, 1783–1872

Date1830

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Frame: 36 7/8 x 31 13/16 in. (93.7 x 80.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the James G. Hanes Memorial Fund in memory of Lucy Hanes Chatham; and Dr. Edgar D. Baker and Dr. G. Fred Hale

Object numberG.68.18.1

On View

On view

Provenance**Commissioned by Jane Anne Blakeley [1] Abbott, mother of subject, St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1830; created United States, 1830; to husband of subject, Dr. Joseph von Bretton, Baron von Bretton, St. Croix, 1841 (?); to daughter by second wife; Udney Maria Blakeley [2] Treffry, Place, Fowey, Cornwall, England; to son, Col. Edward Treffry, Place, Fowley, Cornwall, 1924 (?); bequeathed to wife, Ann Treffry; [Harvard Works of Art, Ltd., London, 1961]; [John Partridge & Sons, Ltd., London, 1961; [Newhouse Galleries, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1968.

[1] Mrs. Robert
[2] Mrs. Charles Ebenezer
Published ReferencesEdward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully, (Philadelphia: Wickersham Press, 1921), cat. no. 168.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Quarterly 32 (Autumn 1969), listed 331.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 9, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1969), listed 58, illus. (b-w) 61.

Jane Marshall, "Naval Hero: Johnston Blakely," Tar Heel Junior Historian 2 (February 1972), 5-6, illus. (b-w).

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 226.

Lindley S. Butler, Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), illus. (b-w) 115.

John W. Coffey, entry for Udney Maria Blakeley (1815-1842), in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 404, illus. (color) 405.
Exhibition HistoryFayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, "Inaugural Exhibition of Works of Art from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 1-30, 1978.

Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, "American Costume in Painting," August 28-September 24, 1979.

Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "18th and 19th Century American Art from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," June 20, 2003-February 22, 2004.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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