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William Sidney Mount

Portrait of Hannah Muncy Smith, 1852

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • William Sidney Mount, 1807-1868, American

Title

Portrait of Hannah Muncy Smith

Year

1852

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

77.5 x 65.1 cm (30 1/2 x 25 5/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and dated reverse:Hannah Smith Aged 73 years byWm S. Mount August 1852

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Gift of Dr. William M. Muncy

Object Number

70.100

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selection VII

American Painting from the Museum's Collection, c.1800-1930

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Making It In America

October 11, 2013 - February 9, 2014

Widow Hannah Muncy Smith owned land in Penataquit, Long Island, where Mount painted her stoic likeness during the summer of 1852. He also completed a posthumous portrait of her only grandchild, but charged less for Hannah’s, preferring living models. Mount wrote that for Hannah’s portrait, he drew the “old lady . . . aged 73” in india ink, then “glazed the cap with cobalt and the background and dress, with black and burnt sienna mixed . . . to kill or subdue the white ground so that I could see the head (the effect) better . . . I scumbled pure white and touched parts I wished to leave transparent—the portrait successful in color and likeness.”

An American Idyll

April 6, 2007 - January 6, 2008

Romanticism and Revival

December 4, 1992 - June 26, 1993

American Painting and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection

June 26, 1987 - January 3, 1988

Selection VII

March 31 - May 8, 1977

Days Gone By

July 1 - September 26, 1971

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Portrait of Hannah Muncy Smith with the accession number of 70.100. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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