Philadelphia Museum of Art 26th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19130
Date:
1797
Notes:
"Barratt, Carrie Rebora, and Ellen G. Miles, "Gilbert Stuart," New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004, no. 51.
"American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts," Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in association with University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2010, pg. 51.
Summary:
Portrait of Anne Willing Bingham seated in a red damask chair, her body turned to the left, her gaze directed toward the viewer, and her left index finger marking her place in a book held in her left hand. She wears a black dress with white trim around the short sleeves and on the neckline. Around her neck she wears a gold medallion adorned with blue and white stones, and she wears gold hoop earrings adorned with blue stone. Her curly brown hair is loosely pulled back with a braid around the crown of her head.