New York State Historical Association Lake Road, Route 80 Cooperstown New York 13326 Accession Number: N-145.77
Date:
1816
Notes:
New York State Historical Association, 1974, 1988.
D'Ambrosio, Paul S. and Charlotte M. Evans, "Folk art's many faces: portraits in the New York State Historical Association," Cooperstown, N.Y.: The Association, 1987, no. 45.
Lord, Clifford L., "The museum and art gallery of the New York State Historical Association," Cooperstown, N.Y.: The Association, 1942.
"American Art from Alumni Collections," New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1968.
Summary:
Full-length portrait of Elizabeth Fenimore Cooper seated in the main hall of her home. Standing in a doorway in the background is one of the Cooper's black servants named Joseph Stewart (d. 1823).