Anna Maria Cumpston
c. 1790
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 147 x 95.6 cm (57 7/8 x 37 5/8 in.) framed: 157.5 x 104.9 x 5 cm (62 x 41 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Accession Number
1953.5.32
Art Historical Context
**Anna Maria Cumpston *Charles Peale Polk, c. 1790* Oil on canvas, 147 x 95.6 cm (57 7/8 x 37 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, of Edgar William and Bern Chrysler Garbisch into the early years of the American republic with *Anna Maria Cumpston*, striking oil-on-canvas portrait by Charles Peale Polk, around 1790. This half-length composition, nearly five feet tall, exemplifies the period's portraiture tradition, where painted likenesses preserved personal identity and social status amid a young nation's growth. Polk, an active painter in the post-Revolutionary era, captures his sitter...