Unidentified artist
Seventeenth century

Elizabeth Clarke Freake (Mrs. John Freake) and Baby Mary, about 1671 and 1674¹

Oil on canvas
42 x 36 3/4 in. (108 x 93.3 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Rice, 1963.134

Bottom right: "An^o Dom, 167[1]/ Æ TATIS SU Æ 29"

Provenance
John Freake (1635–1675) and Elizabeth Freake (1642–1713) to their daughter Mary Freake Wolcott (Mrs. Josiah Wolcott) (1674–1752); to her grandson Josiah Wolcott (1733–1796), Oxford, Massachusetts; to his daughter Elizabeth Wolcott Sigourney (Mrs. Andrew Sigourney) (1761–1829); to her daughter Mary Sigourney Town Hunt (1799–1860); to her daughter Mrs. William Wallace, Tennessee; willed to her first cousin John Wolcott Wetherell (b. 1820), Worcester, Massachusetts; whose wife willed them to Wetherell's first cousin once removed, Myrtis S. Sigourney (Mrs. Gilbert H. Harrington, later Mrs. William B. Scofield) (1860–1939); to her brother Andrew Wolcott Sigourney (b. 1880) and his wife, Katherine H. Sigourney (d. 1963), Princeton, Massachusetts; to their four children, Andrew Sigourney, Suzanne Sigourney (Mrs. Robert E. Leonard), Katherine M. Shaver, and Carolyn O. Holtz.²

References
Wolcott 1881, 200.

Freeland 1894, 243–44, 305, 317.

Bolton 1919, II, 390, 641; III, 1032.

Henniker-Heaton 1923, [61], 62, 64–65.

Morris 1927, 6, 7, pl. 11.

Warwick and Pitz 1929, 134, pl. XLIII.

Worcester 1929, n.p.

Barker 1934, [504], 509 (original); 49, 53 (reprint).

Cahill and Barr 1935, 11.

Dow 1935, opp. 65.

Dresser 1935, frontispiece, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 53, 81–83, 84, 102, 103, 110, 120, 126, 130, 150, 164, 167, 168, 176.

American Art Portfolios 1936, I, 15, 17, 18, 26–29.

Burroughs 1936, 10–11, 16, fig. 8.

American Portraits 1939, I, 156.

Hagen 1940, frontispiece, 14, 15–17, 18, 19.

Saint-Gaudens 1941, 16, pl. (opp. 16), 17.

Flexner 1947, x, 7, 12, 14, 17, 22.

Art Institute of Chicago 1949, 14–15.

Larkin 1949, 20.

Barker 1950, 37–39.

Robb and Taylor 1951, 851–52, 853.

Richardson 1956, 28, fig. 9.

World Art, I, 1959, 278, pl. 96.

Baraldi 1963, 21, 23.

Dresser 1964, n.p.

Mastai 1964, 137–38, 139.

Worcester Annual Report, 1964, x, xiii.

Warwick 1965, 88, 122, 255–56, 274, 282, pl. 13.

Dresser 1966a, 22–23, 31.

Dresser 1966b, 2, 6.

Green 1966, 21, 23.

Rich and Dresser 1966, 648, 653.

Wright 1966, 154, 155, 156, 158.

Gold 1968, 77.

McLanathan 1968, 19, 21, 22.

Prown 1969, 16, 18, 19, 26.

Fisher 1969, 14, opp. 14.

Kuh 1969, 46–47.

Freedgood 1970, 5, 7.

Glubok 1970, 6, 7.

Mendelowitz 1970, 108, 109.

Dresser 1971, 473.

Price 1972, 8, 9.

Wilmerding 1973, 30, 32, 33.

Worcester 1973, 142.

Davidson 1974, 8, 9.

Neumeyer 1974, 25, pl. 4, 303.

Tashjian and Tashjian 1974, 139, 142, 220.

Flexner 1975, 33, 34.

Kane 1975, 104, 105, fig. 22.

Reutlinger 1975, 4, 6, 7.

Whitehill and Kotker 1976, 44, 45.

Wilmerding 1976, 17–18, 19, 32, pl. 9.

Brown 1977, 33, 35 (pl. 44).

Greven 1977, 282.

Brown 1979, 27.

Cummings 1979, 192, 193.

Taylor 1979, 14.

Teitz 1979, 8–9.

Brant and Cullman 1980, 1, 2.

Kirk 1980, 1078–79.

Fairbanks and Bates 1981, 38, 39.

Strickler 1981–1982, 48, 49–53, 54.

Bishop and Coblentz 1982, 38.

Fairbanks 1982, III, 416, 417, 418, 425, 434 (pl. XXIII), 443, 445, 446, 448, 450, 451, 452, 453, 458, 459, 460–61, 462, 463.

Kirk 1982, 27, 68, 70.

Miller 1984, 154, 155, fig. 8, 170, 171.

Earnshaw 1985, 44.

Nylander 1985, 67.

Craven 1986, 14, 38, 39, 41, 43–48, 50, 53, 82, 116, 167.

Meyer 1986b, 24, 25, 26.

Vincent 1986, 11.

Mintz and Kellogg 1988, frontispiece.

Scully 1988, 34, 37.

Vlach 1988, 87, 88, 89–90, 93, 94, 95, 97–99, 101.

Tortora and Eubank 1989, 172.

Li 1989, pl. 52, 29.

Broos 1990, 19–20.

Goddard 1990, 16–17, 20.

Sherman 1990-1991, 34, 35–41.

Calvert 1992, 31–32, opp. 52.

Martin 1992, 134, fig. 50.

Craven 1993, 103, 105, 106, 107–8.

Craven 1994, 43, 44.

Saxton 1994, 29.

Worcester 1994, 179.

Dunkley and Tuckhorn 1995, 255.

Fales 1995, 20.

Stokstad 1995, 817–18.

Treckel 1996, 89, 90.

Fairbanks 1996, 677.

Hughes 1997, 34, 35.

Graham 2000, 80–82.

Exhibitions
Exhibition of American Eighteenth-Century Art Owned in and near Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, March 10–31, 1929, cat no. 323.

XVIIth Century Painting in New England, Worcester Art Museum, July and August 1934, cat. entry, p. 83.

The Colonial Epoch in America, Worcester Art Museum, April 18, 1975–January 4, 1976, cat. pp. 4, 6, 7.

American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., April 27–June 24, 1979, cat. pp. 8–9.

New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 5–August 22, 1982, cat. no. 436.

Notes
1. This work has also been published as Elizabeth and Mary Freake (Mintz and Kellogg, 1988, frontispiece); Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary (Kane 1975, fig. 22); Elizabeth Freke with Baby Mary (Burroughs 1936, fig. 8); Madame Elizabeth Freake & Baby Mary (Saint-Gaudens 1940, opp. 16); Madam Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary (Barker 1934, [504]); Madam Elizabeth Freake with Baby Mary (Warwick and Pitz 1929, pl. 43); Madam Freake and Baby Mary (Barker 1934, reprint, 49); Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke Freake and Baby, Mary (Hagen 1940, 15); Mrs. Elizabeth (Clarke) Freake and Daughter Mary (Dow 1935, opp. 65); Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary (Cahill and Barr 1935, 11); Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Daughter Mary (Prown 1968, 16); Mrs. Freake and Baby Mary (Dresser 1935, frontispiece); Mrs. Freake and Baby Mary (?) (Green 1966, 21); Mrs. John (Elizabeth) Freake and her Baby, Mary (Fairbanks 1996, 677); Portrait of Madam Elizabeth Freake with Baby Mary (Henniker-Heaton 1923, [61]); and Portrait of Mrs. Freake and Baby Mary, Worcester, 1929, n.p.).

2. Mary Freake Wolcott, Will, March 7, 1752, Suffolk County Probate, record no. 10204, names Josiah Wolcott the principal beneficiary. Probate inventory for the estate of Josiah Wolcott, filed April 20, 1797, Worcester County Probate. Mrs. William B. Scofield to Louisa Dresser, January 28, 1935, object file, Worcester Art Museum.