Joseph Badger
Born Charlestown, Mass., March 14, 1707/8.
Died Boston, May 11, 1765.

Lois Orne (Mrs. William Paine), 17571
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 20 11/16 in. (65.1 x 52.5 cm)
Eliza S. Paine Fund in memory of William R. and Frances T. C. Paine, 1971.102
Provenance
By descent in the family of the sitter, from Timothy and Rebecca (Taylor) Orne; to their daughter Esther (Orne) and John Clarke; to her sister Rebecca (Orne), the sitter, and Joseph Cabot; to their daughter Rebecca Orne Cabot; to her nephew, Joseph S. and Susan (Burley Howes) Cabot; to his cousin Josephine (Rose Lee) and William Gurdon Saltonstall; to their son Robert and Caroline (James Stevenson) Saltonstall, by 1897; to their daughter Harriet (Lee Saltonstall) and William H. Gratwick, Jr., by 1943. Purchased from Mrs. Gratwick, 1971.2

References
Ellery and Bowditch 1897, I, opp. 189.

Bayley 1916, 261.

Park 1918a, 30–31.

Park 1923, 107.

American Portraits 1939, II, 291.

Worcester 1943.

Dresser 1943, 127.

Forbes 1943, 84.

Dresser 1945, 196, 200.

Dresser 1972, 1, 5, 7, 8, 10–15.

The Art Quarterly 35, no. 1 (spring 1972), 91.

Ruth Davidson, "Museum Accessions," Antiques 102, no. 3 (September 1972): 360.

Nylander 1972, 23–24, 65.

Worcester 1973, 145.

Reutlinger 1975, 14, 15.

Teitz 1979, 16–17.

Montague 1992, 14.

Exhibitions
New England Painting, 1700–1775, Worcester Art Museum, February 17–March 31, 1943, no. 22.

Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture, 1969–1971, Worcester Art Museum, January 26–February 20, 1972.

The Colonial Epoch in America, Worcester Art Museum, April 18, 1975–January 4, 1976, cat. pp. 14, 15.

American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, April 27–June 24, 1979, cat. pp. 16–17.

Notes
1. This painting also has been published as Lois Orne (Worcester 1943, n.p.); Miss Lois Orne (Park 1918, 30); and Portrait of Lois Orne (Ruth Davidson, "Museum Accessions," Antiques 102, no. 3 [September 1972]: 360).

2. Ellery and Bowditch 1897, I, 187; Dresser 1972, 8–9, 15. Purchase by the Worcester Art Museum is documented in a series of letters, beginning with Mrs. Gratwick to Louisa Dresser, January 14, 1971, object file, Worcester Art Museum. Gratwick and Dresser were both descendants of Lois Orne.