Martha Tennent Rogers (Mrs. David Rogers) and Her Son, probably Samuel Henry Rogers

Martha Tennent Rogers (Mrs. David Rogers) and Her Son, probably Samuel Henry Rogers by Ralph Earl

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 86.4 x 73.3 cm (34 x 28 7/8 in.) framed: 100.7 x 87.6 x 4.1 cm (39 5/8 x 34 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CAB

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1965.15.9

About the Artist

Ralph Earl · 17511801

Ralph Earl (1751–1801) was born on May 11 in Shrewsbury or Leicester, Massachusetts, the eldest of four children to Ralph Earle, a colonel in the Revolutionary army, and Phebe Whittemore Earl. Growing up amid farmers and craftsmen in Worcester County, Earl displayed prodigious talent as a self-taught artist, emulating the works of John Singleton Copley after observing his half-brother Henry Pelham...

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