Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02115 Accession Number: 03.1033
Date:
1775
Notes:
"American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1969.
Bilodeau, Francis W., "Art in South Carolina, 1670-1970," Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina Tricentennial Commission, 1970.
Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, pg. 53.
"South Carolina Portraits: A Collection of Portraits of South Carolinians and Portraits in South Carolina," Columbia, SC: National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina, 1996, pg. 179.
Saunders, Richard H., and Ellen G. Miles, "American Colonial Portraits 1700-1776," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1987, pg. 245.
"A New World Imagined: Art of the Americas," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2010, fig. 121.
Image on file.
Bilodeau, Francis W., "Art in South Carolina, 1670-1970," Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina Tricentennial Commission, 1970, p. 64.
Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, pg. 53.
"South Carolina Portraits: A Collection of Portraits of South Carolinians and Portraits in South Carolina," Columbia, SC: National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina, 1996, pg. 179.
Saunders, Richard H., and Ellen G. Miles, "American Colonial Portraits 1700-1776," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1987, pg. 245.
"A New World Imagined: Art of the Americas," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2010, fig. 121.
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Summary:
Portrait of Ralph Izard seated across a table from his wife, a document held atop the table in his left hand. His wife leans across the table, her left hand reaching out toward the document. In the background there is drapery on the right, a column and urn on the left, and a statue of a male and female figure embracing in the middle. In the far distance there is a landscape with architectural ruins on a distance hilltop.
