Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan

1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society, <em>Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter</em>, 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.

• Carolyn J. Weekley, ed., <em>Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter</em>, 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,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 24, no. 2 (1999): 185, as <em>Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson</em>, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4112968">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4112968</a>.
• Andrew J. Walker, “Portfolio,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 24, no. 2 (1999): 189, cat. 1 (ill.), as <em>Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson</em>, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4112968">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4112968</a>.
• Margaret Rose Vendryes, “Race Identity/ Identifying Race: Robert S. Duncanson and Nineteenth–Century American Painting, <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, no. 1 (2001), 82–99, fig. 3 (ill.), as <em>Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson</em>, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4102840">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4102840</a>.
• James Rondeau, <em>Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 49 (ill.).

Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces

Art Institute of Chicago

Solitude

Art Institute of Chicago

Beyrouth

Art Institute of Chicago

Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket

Art Institute of Chicago

A Vue

Art Institute of Chicago

Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth

Art Institute of Chicago

York Harbor, Coast of Maine

Art Institute of Chicago

dread

Art Institute of Chicago

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