Mrs. Oliver Wolcott (Laura Collins) (Primary Title)

Ralph Earl, American, 1751 - 1801 (Artist)

ca.1800
American
oil on canvas
Unframed: 53 1/2 × 43 in. (135.89 × 109.22 cm)
Framed: 60 1/2 × 50 in. (153.67 × 127 cm)
76.25
Not on view
not signed
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
Ralph Earl: Face of the Young Republic, Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1991 – January 8, 1992; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, February 2, 1992 – April 5, 1992; Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth, TX, May 16, 1992 – July 12, 1992

Five Years of Collecting, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va., March 25 – May 4, 1980

Connecticut Portraits by Ralph Earl, 1751-1801, Yale Gallery of Art, New Haven, CT, 1935 (No. 10)
Image used in didactic panel for Yorktown Victory Center, Declaration of Independence Gallery, Yorktown, Va., [10 year agreement] September 2006 – September 2016

Kornhauser, Elizabeth M., Richard L. Bushman, Stephen H. Kornhauser, and Aileen Ribeiro. Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Exhibition catalog. (Fig. 26, p. 148-149).

The Decorative Arts and Paintings of the Colonies and New Republic, 1740-1820. Boston: Childs Gallery, 1976(?). (n.p.; image appears within catalog as well as on back cover).

van Devanter, Ann. "The Signers' Ladies." The Magazine Antiques (July 1975); 114-122 (Fig. 5).
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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