
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Pianoforte
James Stewart · 1818
Provenance
Ownership history
- James Dwight Brewer (1819-1886), Springfield, MA; to Edward Spaulding Brewer (1846-1911); to Edward Harris Brewer (1874-1964), Connecticut; to Corrine Brewer (Mrs. Herbert) McLaughlin (1911-1989), Lake Forest, IL by 1970; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Stiles T. Colwill, Expatriated Masterpieces of Maryland's Cabinetmakers, in Maryland Antiques Show and Sale, Museum and Library of Maryland History, Maryland Historical Society, February 14–17, 1985, 71–2 (ill.).
- Ruth Davidson, Museum Accessions in The Magazine Antiques, v. CII, no. 3 (Sept, 1972), 361–2, 370 (ill.).
- Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, 24 (ill.).
- Gregory R. Weidman, Furniture in Maryland 1740–1940, Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society, 1984, 148, note 9.
- Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local HIstory, 1989, 2nd ed., 19, no. 50 (ill.).
- Weidman, Gregory R., Jennifer F. Goldsborough, et al., Classical Maryland 1815–1845: Fine and Decorative Arts from the Golden Age, Maryland Historial Society and the Museum and Library of Maryland History, 1993, 132, 138 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 143–147, no. 62.
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