Paintings
Portrait of Mrs. Robert E. Carter
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- Date
- 1831
- Accession number
- 2023.7.1
- Maker
- Frederick Randolph Spencer(Opens in new tab) (American, 1806–1875)
- Dimensions
- frame: 46 1/2 × 39 1/2 × 6 in. (118.1 × 100.3 × 15.2 cm.)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Description
- This pair of portraits by the American artist Frederick Randolph Spencer depicts a fashionable couple from New York: Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Carter, painted in 1832 and 1831, respectively. The extravagant showiness of the wife’s lace collar and over-the-top riffled bonnet is echoed in the elaborately ornamented period frame and the intricately carved Empire-style sofa on which she rests her arm.
- Credit
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Mark Rogers and Raymond Rourke
