{"data": {"id": 103366, "accession_number": "1921.428", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Elizabeth Beltzhoover Mason, c. 1803\u20135. Gilbert Stuart (American, born The Thirteen Colonies, 1755\u20131828). Oil on canvas; framed: 90 x 78 x 8 cm (35 7/16 x 30 11/16 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 73.8 x 61 cm (29 1/16 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from J. H. Wade, 1921.428", "current_location": "204 Colonial American", "title": "Elizabeth Beltzhoover Mason", "creation_date": "c. 1803\u20135", "creation_date_earliest": 1798, "creation_date_latest": 1810, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["United States"], "technique": "oil on canvas", "support_materials": [], "department": "American Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "American - Painting", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "Framed: 90 x 78 x 8 cm (35 7/16 x 30 11/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 73.8 x 61 cm (29 1/16 x 24 in.)", "dimensions": {"framed": {"height": 0.9, "height_inch": 35, "height_inch_fraction": 0.4375, "width": 0.78, "width_inch": 30, "width_inch_fraction": 0.6875, "depth": 0.08, "depth_inch": 3, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.125}, "unframed": {"height": 0.738, "height_inch": 29, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "width": 0.61, "width_inch": 24, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 312517, "title": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition", "description": "<i>The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition</i>. 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Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29-December 17, 2006).", "opening_date": "2006-08-29T00:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>American Painting Before 1865. </em>Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (September 4-26, 1927).", "opening_date": "1927-09-04T04:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>Comparisons, </em>Art Gallery of Toronto (January 11-February 3, 1957).", "opening_date": "1957-01-11T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, George Washington's World (15 January - 14 February 1954).", "opening_date": "1954-01-15T05:00:00Z"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1921-", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "(Frank W. Bayley, Boston, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1921", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "Louisa Mason Terry [1844-1921], Washington, DC, consigned to Frank W. Bayley for sale1", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->Sometimes referred to as Louise, Louisa Terry was married to Rear Admiral Silas Wright Terry [c. 1841-1911]. From 1909 until 1921, the painting was on loan to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC.</div>"], "date": "1899-1921", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "Margaret Augusta Cowan Mason [1821-1899], Hagerstown, MD, by descent to her daughter, Louisa Mason Terry1", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->1While not generally included in this painting\u2019s provenance, George C. Mason\u2019s <em>The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart</em>, published in 1879, situates the painting in the collection of \u201cMrs. J. Thompson [sic] Mason\u201d at the time.</div>"], "date": "1873-1899", "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "Judge John Thomson Mason, Jr. [1815-1873], Hagerstown, MD, by descent to his wife, Margaret Augusta Cowan Mason", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1836-1873", "sortorder": 5}, {"description": "Elizabeth Beltzhoover Mason [1781-1836] and John Thomson Mason [1765-1824], Montpelier, Clear Spring, MD, by descent to their son, Judge John Thomson Mason, Jr.", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "c. 1803/1805 - 1836", "sortorder": 6}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Stuart also painted a portrait of George Washington, now immortalized on the dollar bill.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The sitter\u2019s high-waisted dress, pearl necklace, and elegant hairstyle of cascading ringlets reflect the height of fashion around 1800. Her gaze is assured: her chin is tilted upward but her eyes peer down with confidence. Mason\u2019s husband was a prosperous lawyer, an influential figure in President Thomas Jefferson\u2019s administration, and a plantation owner in Maryland. According to an inventory from 1807, the couple enslaved approximately 185 people, ranging from the newborn Abraham to 79-year-old Rachel. The family\u2019s wealth afforded Mason the opportunity to be painted by Gilbert Stuart, a much sought-after portraitist.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60503339"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1921.428-elizabeth-beltzhoove"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. <em>American Painting Before 1865: An Exhibition September 4th to 26th, 1937</em>. 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Scribner's Sons, 1879.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Park, Lawrence, John Hill Morgan, and Royal Cortissoz. <em>Gilbert Stuart; An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works</em>. New York: W.E. Rudge, 1926.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. <em>American Painting Before 1865: An Exhibition September 4th to 26th, 1937</em>. Hagerstown, MD: The Museum, 1937.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Park, Lawrence. \u201cPortrait of Mrs. John Thomson Mason by Gilbert Stuart,\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 8, no. 19 (Dec. 1921): 154-155", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Park, Lawrence, John Hill Morgan, and Royal Cortissoz. <em>Gilbert Stuart; An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works</em>. New York: W.E. Rudge, 1926.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Park, Lawrence. \u201cPortrait of Mrs. John Thomson Mason by Gilbert Stuart,\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 8, no. 19 (Dec. 1921): 154-15", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Mason, George C. <em>The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart: With Selections from Stuart's Portraits Reproduced on Steel and by Photogravure</em>. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 221", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. \"Portrait of Mrs. John Thomson Mason by Gilbert Stuart.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>no. 10 (December 1921).", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 154-155; Reproduced: p. 163", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. \"Early American Art.\" <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Seventh Annual Report </em>(1923).", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 52", "url": null}, {"citation": "Dorr, Charles Henry. \"The Real Gilbert Stuart.\" <em>The Judd Magazines, Inc. </em>18, no. 1 (November 1922).", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 50; Reproduced: p. 35", "url": null}, {"citation": "Whiting, Frederic Allen. \"The Cleveland Museum of Art.\" <em>Art and Archaeology </em>16, no. 4-5 (1923).", "page_number": "Reproduced: 186", "url": null}, {"citation": "Park, Lawrence, John Hill Morgan, and Royal Cortissoz. <em>Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works</em>. 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Rudge, 1926.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. \"In Memoriam: Jeptha Homer Wade.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>13, no. 4 (April 1926).", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 91", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cortissoz, Royal. \"The Field of Art.\" <em>Scribners </em>(November 1926).", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 576", "url": null}, {"citation": "\"At the Art Museum.\" <em>Bystander </em>(Cleveland, OH), 1931.", "page_number": "Mentioned; Reproduced", "url": null}, {"citation": "Medford, Richard Carl. \"The Fine Arts Exhibits of the National Antietam Commemoration.\" <em>Bulletin of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts </em>3, no. 1 (September 1937).", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 4; Reproduced: cover", "url": null}, {"citation": "\"Finest Art in US Goes to Illinois Corn Belt for Big Small-Town Show.\" <em>LIFE, </em>March 1939.", "page_number": "Reproduced", "url": null}, {"citation": "Milliken, William. \"Silver Jubilee Exhibition.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>28, no.6 (June 1941): 88-108", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 89", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140932"}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 528", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n97"}, {"citation": "Mount, Charles Merrill. <em>Gilbert Stuart, A Biography</em>. 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Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3; Reproduced", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. \"A Checklist: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>(January 1973).", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 34", "url": null}, {"citation": "Mount, Charles Merrill. <em>Gilbert Stuart in Washington: With a Catalogue of His Portraits Painted between December 1803 and July 1805</em>. Washington, D.C.: Columbia Historical Society, 1973.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 96; Reproduced: p. 98", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. 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