Portrait of Mary Wyer Crehore (1827-1898)

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Collection Type

Date

1845-1855

GUSN

GUSN-251375

Description

Oval bust length portrait of Mary Wyer Crehore (1827-1898) shows a young woman with gold earrings, lace collar, and brooch attached to plain button-front dress. Daughter of Henry Loring and Elizabeth Tracy Loring. Married Dr Charles Frederick Crehore (2003.26.4). Mother of Frederic Morton Crehore (2003.26.5).

Details

Descriptive Terms

paintings (visual works)
portraits
oil paint (paint)
canvas
painting (image-making)
Portrait
Painting

Inscription

"Mary Wyer Loring -- daughter of Henry Loring and his wife Elizabeth Tracy -- wife of Charles Frederic Crehore -- great grandmother of Sybil Eliz. Scribner Lee -- great great grandmother of C.M. Lee 3rd / Richard Henry Lee / Frances Isabel Lee" (Handwritten paper label, center back)
"Closson / Cincinnati" (Paper gold label)

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

27 x 23 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Claude Lee

Accession Number

2003.26.3

Places

Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

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Title Painting Accession Number 2003.26.1
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Title Painting Accession Number 2006.26.5
Title Painting Accession Number 2003.26.6
Title Portrait of Mary Middleton Loring (1795-1876) Accession Number 2003.26.2
Title Portrait of Frederic Morton Crehore (1858-1919) Accession Number 2003.26.5

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