Rebecca Orne (Mrs. Joseph Cabot), 17571 |
| 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 Bayley 1916, 261. Park 1918a, 31. Park 1923, 107. American Portraits 1939, II, 291. Worcester 1943. Dresser 1943, 127. Forbes 1943, 84. Head 1945, 8. RISD 1945, 55 and checklist (n.p.). Dresser 1945, 196, 200. Prown 1966, I, 14 n 9. Dresser 1972, 1, 5, 6, 8, and 10. "La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 79, no. 6 (February 1972): 90. 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. Exhibitions Old and New England, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, January 19–February 18, 1945, cat. no. 9. 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 2. Ellery and Bowditch 1897, I, 187; and 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. Dresser and Gratwick were both descendants of Rebecca Orne’s sister, Lois, whose portrait was acquired at the same time. |