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Portrait of a Vanderveer, possibly Jane Griggs Vanderveer (Mrs. Garret Vanderveer)(1780-1865)
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Portrait of a Vanderveer, possibly Jane Griggs Vanderveer (Mrs. Garret Vanderveer)(1780-1865)

Date1819
Artist Micah Williams (1782-1837)
OriginAmerica, New Jersey, Freehold
MediumPastel on paper
DimensionsUnframed: 24 x 20 1/2in. (61 x 52.1cm) and Framed: 26 13/16 x 23in.
Credit LineGift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Object number1931.200.4
DescriptionA half-length portrait of a woman in a long-sleeved, high-waisted, gray dress with a white ruffled collar. She wears a white ruffled cap and holds a book partly opened in her proper right hand. Her arms are raised; her hands, crossed at her waistline, are both visible; she wears a ring on both index fingers. The overall background is a warm reddish-brown.
The 2 1/2-inch molded frame is painted black with a gilded liner and is a re-built mid-nineteenth-century replacement.
Label TextSee the text for accession no. 1931.200.3.
Williams portrayed several members of the Vanderveer family. In 1931, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller acquired this portrait along with one of a man (accession no. 1931.200.3), which was then thought to represent her husband but is now considered more likely a likeness of her son, John G. Vanderveer (1799-1883).



ProvenancePurchased from Edith Gregor Halpert, Downtown Gallery, New York, NY, by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in 1931; given to CWF by Rockefeller in 1939.