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Portrait of Mrs. Warburton of Rockboro, Virginia

Companion to Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973-258-1

Made in United States, North and Central America

c. 1825

Ammi Phillips, American, 1788 - 1865

Oil on canvas
29 13/16 x 23 7/8 inches (75.7 x 60.6 cm)

Currently not on view

1973-258-2

The Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1973

Label

Ammi Phillips, an itinerant portrait painter who worked across the northeastern states for decades beginning about 1810, served a well-dressed, middle-class clientele. His sitters, like Mrs. Warburton, are often shown with books and seated in fancy painted chairs. Painting with a "folk" aesthetic, Phillips created images with strong value contrasts, crisp contours, flattened forms, and lively surface patterns.

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