PaintingsAmerican19th century
Mary Crowninshield Silsbee Sparks (Mrs. Jared Sparks) (1809-1887)
1830
Artists
Francis AlexanderArtist
Mrs. Jared (Mary Crowninshield Silsbee) SparksSitter
Dimensions
76.9 x 63.1 cm (30 1/4 x 24 13/16 in.) framed: 99.1 x 86.4 x 12.1 cm (39 x 34 x 4 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Benjamin and Mary Silsbee, parents of the sitter, Washington, DC, and Salem, 1830; descent in family to Mary Crowninshield Silsbee Sparks (sitter) and Jared Sparks; descent in family to Lizzie Sparks Pickering (Mrs. Edward Charles Pickering), 1887; to Harvard University, 1919.
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