Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Painting |
Artist |
Elliott, Charles Loring |
Date |
1846 |
Title |
[Portrait of David Embree Austen] |
Description |
Oil painting on canvas. Bust portrait of David Embree Austen. Painting is signed on the reverse of the canvas: "Painted by C.L. Elliott 1846." Plain wooden frame (not original). (Keywords: New York) |
Acquisition |
Gift of Adele G. Forsythe |
Ownership and History |
David Embree Austen (1784-1863) was a maternal great-grandfather of photographer Alice Austen. He operated an auction house in Manhattan. This portrait, with a different frame, appears in several of Alice Austen's photographs of the parlor of Clear Comfort, the Austen family home in Rosebank, Staten Island. |
Earliest Date |
1846 |
Latest Date |
1846 |
Subjects |
Portrait paintings |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Art |
Associated People |
Austen, E. Alice Austen, David Embree |
Catalog Number |
P01.0112 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Barker Welfare Foundation, January 2019. |
Legal Status |
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