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Portrait of the Artist

Date:: 1800
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 x 20 7/8 in. (64.1 x 53 cm)
Classification:: Paintings
Credit Line:: Bequest of Ann S. Stephens, in memory of her mother, Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, 1918
Accession Number:: 18.118

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 756

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: [at lower right]: Vander[lyn]. by him[s]el[f] / Pinxit.
Provenance

the artist, until at least 1802; Aaron Burr, New York, died 1836; Mrs. Joshua Webb, New York, 1836–ca. 1850; Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, New York, by 1882–died 1886; her daughter, Miss Ann S. Stephens, New York, 1886–died 1918
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