PAINTING

Category
PAINTINGS & PRINTS
Object Name
PAINTING
Maker/Artist
Taylor, Samuel T.\attributed*
MESDA Craftsman ID Number
63155
Place Made
Virginia
Date
circa 1810
Materials
oil on canvas
Dimensions
[Overall Ht]33 3/4″ __[Overall Wdth]27″ __[Overall Depth] __[Overall Len] __[Overall Diam] __[Other]sight measurement
Description
portrait of a woman in a sitting position, facing front; very thin cap/bonnet with small flowers all over, dark bow at front, ruffled edge, tied under chin with dark bow; dark dress with ruffled neckline, small flowers on either side of bodice; part of left hand showing; right arm resting on back of fancy chair; right hand holding book with index finger in middle of book; part of back of fancy chair showing with design painted on top back
Object Location
private collection
MESDA / Old Salem Accession Number
S-7585
Photo Number
S-7585
File Location
PAINTINGS/Known Artists/Taylor, Samuel T.
History
The portrait descended in the family to present owner.
Alterations-Condition
__ __Restored by Russell Quandt after fire.
Subjects
Mrs. John Wiatt (nee Wilhelmina Jordan) 1750- __The subject was the daughter of Colonel Samuel Jordan, member of the House of Burgess from Buckingham County, Virginia, from 1766-1768, and his second wife, Judith Scott Ware, widow of Peter Ware. She married Colonel John Wiatt of Amherst County, Virginia. He died in 1826. __For information on the artist, see MESDA’s photographic files. For a portrait of the subject’s daughter, see S-7586, also attributed to Samuel T. Taylor. For information on the subject’s husband, Colonel John Wiatt, see MESDA’s small Virginia cards.
*The attribution was by Susan Shames of Colonial Williamsburg, August,1988.
Examined
Bradford L. Rauschenberg –Frank L. Horton –Edith Culpepper Potter __09/26/1977