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Portrait of Sarah Belcher Lyde (1708-1768)

Artist John Smibert (American, born Scotland,1688-1751)
Dateca. 1735-1743
Dimensions36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PAINTING
Credit LineMuseum purchase, Joseph O. Eaton Fund
Terms
  • female portrait
Object numberM.2014.3
DescriptionWife of Byfield Lyde (married August 17, 1727), daughter of the Governor of Massachusetts, Jonathon Belcher and Mrs. Mary Partridge Belcher
Catalogue raisonnéSaunders #107
Inscribedverso in ink: [inscribed lines indentifying sitter, artist & conservator in 1880; verso on stretcher: [Clifford, Picture Restorer label]
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceOwnership in England, (1880-1989); to purchased in England (1989); to Robert Vose Jr.; to R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, IL; to Private Collector c/o Richard Hamilton (1992-2014); to present collection
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