Gift of Robert Allerton
Catalogue
- Year
- 1821
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 83.8 × 69.9 cm (33 × 27 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Ammi Phillips
Artist
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Ammi Phillips
Painting
Ammi Phillips was a prolific American itinerant portrait painter active from the mid 1810s to the early 1860s in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. His artwork is identified as folk art, primitive art, provincial art, and itinerant art without consensus among scholars, pointing to the enigmatic nature of his work and life. He is attributed to over eight hundred paintings, although only eleven are signed.
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- Ammi Phillips
- Year
- 1821
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 83.8 × 69.9 cm (33 × 27 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1821-333200
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified