Painter:

Blackburn, Joseph active 1752-1778  Search this

Subject:

Cutts, Samuel  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Type:

Paintings

Owner/Location:

Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 1979.196.1

Date:

Ca. 1763

Notes:

Somerset Hills (N.J.) Branch Aauw Biap Survey, 1974.

Park, Lawrence, "Joseph Blackburn, a colonial portrait painter," Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1923.

Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 33.

Summary:

Portrait of Samuel Cutts seated at a table beside a window, through which can be seen a view of the harbor with a ship on the water. His left hand rests on his hip and his right hand, holding a quill pen, rests on the table beside a folded letter.

Topic:

Portrait male--Full length  Search this

Architecture interior--Domestic--House  Search this

Architecture interior--Detail--Window  Search this

Object--Written Matter--Letter  Search this

Object--Other--Writing Tool  Search this

Control number:

IAP 71560037

Data Source:

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_ari_152018