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Mrs. Richard Galloway

Artist:
John Hesselius (1728–1778)
Date:
1764
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 3/4 x 30 in. (93.3 x 76.2 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1922
Accession Number:
22.206
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
Signature: [on the back]: Sophia Galloway Aetat. 67 / J. Hesselius Pinx 1764
the subject's daughter, Elizabeth Galloway Sprigg; her son, Richard Sprigg; his daughter, Sophia Sprigg Mercer, died 1821; her son, John Mercer; his son, Thomas Swann Mercer; his son, Carroll Mercer; his wife, Mrs. Carroll Mercer, by 1922
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