Mary (Polly) Lawton Bringhurst

1. John Bringhurst (1764–1800), Philadelphia, by 1793 [Leach 1901, 38]; likely by descent to his son, John Bringhurst, Jr. (1792–1803), Newport, RI, by 1800; by descent his uncle, Robert Lawton, Jr. (1772–1853), Providence, RI, by 1803 [this and the following according to <em>Newport Mercury</em> Aug. 26, 1876, 2]; by descent to his son, Anthony Lawton (1816–1893), Troy, NY, by 1853; to his son, George Perkins Lawton (1846–1924), Saratoga Springs, NY and New York, by 1876. James Graham and Sons, New York, by 1958 [incoming receipt, RX2675, Dec. 5, 1958; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Detroit Institute of Art, <em>The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists</em>, Jan. 18–Mar. 5, 1967, cat. 76, as <em>Mrs. Charles Willson Peale</em>; Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Mar. 26–May 7, 1967.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, <em>Tokens of Affection: the Portrait Miniature in America</em>, Nov. 20, 1990–Feb. 10, 1991, no cat. no.; Washington, DC, National Museum of American Art, Mar. 29–June 16, 1991; Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 1–Nov. 17, 1991 (New York and Chicago only).

• "Local Matters," <em>Newport Mercury</em>, Aug. 26, 1876, 2.
• Josiah Granville Leach, <em>History of the Bringhurst Family with Notes on the Clarkson, De Peyster and Boude Families</em> (J.B. Lippincott, 1901), 38, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89062866322">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89062866322</a>.
• "Historic Miniatures in America," <em>Journal of American History</em> 4, no. 4 (1910): 569–70 (ill.).
• Charles H. Elam, <em>The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists</em>, exh. cat. (Detroit Institute of Art, 1967), 76, cat. 76 (ill.), as <em>Mrs. Charles Willson Peale</em>.
• Robin Bolton-Smith and Dale T. Johnson, <em>Tokens of Affection: the Portrait Miniature in America</em> (National Museum of American Art, 1990), n.p., as <em>Rachel Brewer Peale</em>.
• Eleanor H. Gustafson, ed., "Collectors' Notes," <em>Antiques</em> 148, no. 2 (Aug. 1995): 142 (ill.).
• Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 124–128, cat. 50 (ill.).

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

Residence of Lord Byron

Art Institute of Chicago

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