A Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel (1743-1830)
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A Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel (1743-1830)

Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 96, part 4)

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eBook - PDF

A Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel (1743-1830)

Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 96, part 4)

About this book

Drawing on original manuscript sources, Maxey has produced a persuasive study of a late-18th-century portrait and its subject. He has focused attention on an enigmatic painting, and the person portrayed in it -- a woman of talent and verve, whose life has remained undeservedly obscure. Elizabeth Willing Powel presided over a salon; spoke her mind freely; and maintained, for a period of 40 years, an extensive, illuminating correspondence. She was the trusted confidante of the country's first president, whom she did not hesitate to instruct on where duty summoned him. At a critical moment, the Philadelphia painter, Matthew Pratt, was commissioned to capture on canvas the grief she experienced. Color portrait.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Preface
  4. 1 An Enigmatic Portrait
  5. 2 The Academy's Acquisition of the Portrait and Its Attribution to Matthew Pratt
  6. 3 The Subject of the Portrait Viewed in Enlarged Perspective
  7. 4 Deciphering the Portrait's Message
  8. 5 The Portrait's Missing Provenance
  9. Epilogue
  10. Notes
  11. Index