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Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan
Exhibition history
Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society, Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter, Sept. 26, 1987–Jan. 3, 1988, cat. 20; Williamsburg, VA, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Jan. 17–May 15, 1988; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, June 18–Aug. 25, 1988; Stamford, CT, Whitney Museum of American Art (branch), Sept. 9–Nov. 9, 1988.
Publications
Carolyn J. Weekley, ed., Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter, exh. cat. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1987), 116, cat. 20 (ill.). Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick, “A Portfolio of Works by African American Artists Continuing the Dialogue: A Work in Progress,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, no. 2 (1999): 185, as Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4112968. Andrew J. Walker, “Portfolio,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, no. 2 (1999): 189, cat. 1 (ill.), as Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4112968. Margaret Rose Vendryes, “Race Identity/ Identifying Race: Robert S. Duncanson and Nineteenth–Century American Painting, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 1 (2001), 82–99, fig. 3 (ill.), as Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4102840. James Rondeau, Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 49 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Joshua Johnson (American, c. 1763–after 1825)
- Date
- c. 1805
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 82.9 × 72.8 cm (32 5/8 × 28 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- Baltimore
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Robin and Timm R. Reynolds and Jill Burnside Zeno; Bulley and Andrews, Edna Graham, Love Galleries, Mary Swissler Oldberg, Ratcliffe Foundation, and Quinn E. Delaney funds; Walter Aitken, Dr. Julian Archie, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Herst, Jay W. McGreevy, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Puth, Stone Foundation, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker, Jr. endowment funds; through prior acquisitions of the George F. Harding Collection and Ruth Helgeson
- Accession no.
- 1998.315
Provenance
Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (1775–1851; previously Elizabeth Grant Bankson Wilmans) and James Beatty (1770–1851), Baltimore, MD; by descent through the family to Hugh Purviance King (1872–1966), Long Island City, NY, by 1966 [this and the following according to gallery invoice; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent to his daughter, Frances Cary Montgomery (1911–1988; born Frances King, also Mrs. Hugh C. Montgomery); by descent to private collection, Tennessee, by 1998; with Washburn Gallery, New York, by 1998 [incoming receipt, RX21976, May 21, 1998; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001607
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