Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Boy of Hallett Family with Dog
Artist unknown · 1766–76
Provenance
Ownership history
- Captain Samuel Hallett (1722–1796), Hallett’s Cove, Hellgate Neck, Newtown (Astoria), Queens, NY, and St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; by descent through the family to Muriel Y. Whitlock (1892-1950), Calais, ME, by 1938. With Katrina Kipper (1884-1973), Accord, MA, by 1938; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1938.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Waldron Phoenix Belknap Jr., <em>American Colonial Painting: Materials for a History</em> (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959), 72 (ill.), as <em>Boy of the Hallett Family</em>.
- <em>Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 12, as <em>Boy with Dog</em>.
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