Julia Beach Phelps
PainterPainted by
Unknown
PainterAttributed to
Waldo & Jewett
American, 1820 - 1854
Dateabout 1820
MediumPainting; oil on panel in frame
DimensionsStretcher (height x width): 30 1/4 × 23 7/8in. (76.8 × 60.6cm)
Frame (height x width): 39 1/4 × 33 3/8in. (99.7 × 84.8cm)
Frame (height x width): 39 1/4 × 33 3/8in. (99.7 × 84.8cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineBequeathed by Walter Phelps Warren
DescriptionQuarter-length portrait of Julia Beach Phelps (Mrs. Walter Phelps) by an unknown artist in the style of Henry Inman. Phelps, facing half right, is a young woman with dark hair fashioned into curls on the sides of her head with the rest pulled back. She is wearing a black dress with a white lace collar, jet and gold earrings, and a jet and gold brooch. There is a red curtain on the right side with a landscape beneath it in the lower right corner.
Object number1985.51.2
MarkingsBack of frame: "Frame for portrait of / Mrs. Walter Phelps / (Julia Steele Beach) / Property of / Walter Phelps Warren / 955 Lexington Ave. / New York, N.Y. 10021 / May 5, 1971"NotesConstituent note: When this painting was surveyed by WACC for conservation, Michael Heslip identified it as one of several that may have been done by Waldo & Jewett, based on "both style of treatment and the appearance of the textured ground."On View
Not on view
Russell Cheney
