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Portrait of Hope Brown Ives (1839-1909)

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1842

GUSN

GUSN-42922

Description

Full length portrait of Hope Brown Ives (1839-1909) as a young girl wearing a white dress and pantaloons. Sitter is holding a basket of flowers over her right arm, a large straw hat with pink ribbon tie lies on the ground behind. Landscape view with fountain in background. Sister of unnamed boy in 1986.1182. Oil paint on canvas, gilt frame with carved decorations in corner.

Details

Descriptive Terms

portraits
oil paintings (visual works)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
Picture
Portrait
Portrait

Inscription

"Hope Brown Ives/born May 18th 1839/J.L. Lincoln Pinxit/Providence, Nov. 1842" (Painted script)

Associated Person

Ives, Hope Brown, 1839-1909

Additional Identification Number

21.1932

Maker

Lincoln, James Sullivan, 1811-1888 (Artist)

Location of Origin

Providence, RI, USA

Dimensions

58 x 46 x 3 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Estate of R.H. Bancroft Winsor

Accession Number

1986.1183

Places

Rhode Island (United States)

Related Items

Title Portrait of a young boy Accession Number 1986.1182

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