id: 103366 accession number: 1921.428 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.428 updated: 2024-04-19 11:00:44.529000 Elizabeth Beltzhoover Mason, c. 1803–5. Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828). 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 title: Elizabeth Beltzhoover Mason title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1803–5 creation date earliest: 1798 creation date latest: 1810 current location: 204 Colonial American creditline: Gift from J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Gilbert Stuart opening date: 2004-10-18T00:00:00 Gilbert Stuart. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 18, 2004-January 16, 2005); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (March 27-July 31, 2005). title: CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits opening date: 2006-08-29T00:00:00 CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29-December 17, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'American Painting Before 1865. Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (September 4-26, 1927).', 'opening_date': '1927-09-04T04:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1921- footnotes: citations: (Frank W. Bayley, Boston, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1921 footnotes: citations: Louisa Mason Terry [1844-1921], Washington, DC, consigned to Frank W. Bayley for sale1 date: 1899-1921 footnotes: *
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.
citations: Margaret Augusta Cowan Mason [1821-1899], Hagerstown, MD, by descent to her daughter, Louisa Mason Terry1 date: 1873-1899 footnotes: *
1While not generally included in this painting’s provenance, George C. Mason’s The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart, published in 1879, situates the painting in the collection of “Mrs. J. Thompson [sic] Mason” at the time.
citations: Judge John Thomson Mason, Jr. [1815-1873], Hagerstown, MD, by descent to his wife, Margaret Augusta Cowan Mason date: 1836-1873 footnotes: citations: 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. date: c. 1803/1805 - 1836 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. American Painting Before 1865: An Exhibition September 4th to 26th, 1937. Hagerstown, MD: The Museum, page number: url: Park, Lawrence, John Hill Morgan, and Royal Cortissoz. Gilbert Stuart; An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works. New York: W.E. Rudge, 1926. page number: url: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. American Painting Before 1865: An Exhibition September 4th to 26th, 1937. Hagerstown, MD: The Museum, 1937. page number: url: Park, Lawrence. “Portrait of Mrs. John Thomson Mason by Gilbert Stuart,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 8, no. 19 (Dec. 1921): 154-155. page number: url: Mason, George C. The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1879. page number: url: Mason, George C. The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1879. page number: url: Park, Lawrence, John Hill Morgan, and Royal Cortissoz. Gilbert Stuart; An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works. New York: W.E. Rudge, 1926. page number: url: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. American Painting Before 1865: An Exhibition September 4th to 26th, 1937. Hagerstown, MD: The Museum, 1937. page number: url: Park, Lawrence. “Portrait of Mrs. John Thomson Mason by Gilbert Stuart,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 8, no. 19 (Dec. 1921): 154-155 page number: url: Park, Lawrence, John Hill Morgan, and Royal Cortissoz. Gilbert Stuart; An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works. New York: W.E. Rudge, 1926. page number: url: Park, Lawrence. “Portrait of Mrs. John Thomson Mason by Gilbert Stuart,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 8, no. 19 (Dec. 1921): 154-15 page number: url: Mason, George C. The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart: With Selections from Stuart's Portraits Reproduced on Steel and by Photogravure. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. page number: Mentioned: p. 221 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. "Portrait of Mrs. John Thomson Mason by Gilbert Stuart." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 10 (December 1921). page number: Mentioned: p. 154-155; Reproduced: p. 163 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. "Early American Art." The Cleveland Museum of Art Seventh Annual Report (1923). page number: Reproduced: p. 52 url: Dorr, Charles Henry. "The Real Gilbert Stuart." The Judd Magazines, Inc. 18, no. 1 (November 1922). page number: Mentioned: p. 50; Reproduced: p. 35 url: Whiting, Frederic Allen. "The Cleveland Museum of Art." Art and Archaeology 16, no. 4-5 (1923). page number: Reproduced: 186 url: Park, Lawrence, John Hill Morgan, and Royal Cortissoz. Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works. New York: W.E. Rudge, 1926. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. "In Memoriam: Jeptha Homer Wade." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 4 (April 1926). page number: Reproduced: p. 91 url: Cortissoz, Royal. "The Field of Art." Scribners (November 1926). page number: Reproduced: p. 576 url: "At the Art Museum." Bystander (Cleveland, OH), 1931. page number: Mentioned; Reproduced url: Medford, Richard Carl. "The Fine Arts Exhibits of the National Antietam Commemoration." Bulletin of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts 3, no. 1 (September 1937). page number: Mentioned: p. 4; Reproduced: cover url: "Finest Art in US Goes to Illinois Corn Belt for Big Small-Town Show." LIFE, March 1939. page number: Reproduced url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 528 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n97 Mount, Charles Merrill. Gilbert Stuart, A Biography. New York: W.W. Norton, 1964. page number: Mentioned: p. 371 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 161 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n185 Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 161 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n185 Adams, Celeste, Rita Myers, and Adele Z. Silver. An Introduction to American Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 3; Reproduced url: 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." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (January 1973). page number: Reproduced: p. 34 url: Mount, Charles Merrill. Gilbert Stuart in Washington: With a Catalogue of His Portraits Painted between December 1803 and July 1805. Washington, D.C.: Columbia Historical Society, 1973. page number: Mentioned: p. 96; Reproduced: p. 98 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 199 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n219 Evans, Dorinda. The Genius of Gilbert Stuart. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. page number: Mentioned: p. 76; Reproduced: p. 76 url: Barratt, Carrie Rebora, Gilbert Stuart, and Ellen Gross Miles. Gilbert Stuart. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. page number: Mentioned: p. 260, 264-6; Reproduced: p. 265 url: Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. page number: Mentioned: p. 9; Reproduced: p. 9 url: |Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. page number: Reproduced: p. 17 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952/page/n17/mode/2up --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.428/1921.428_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.428/1921.428_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.428/1921.428_full.tif