Mary Cuthbert (Mrs. James Cuthbert) (?)
c. 1765
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 75.5 x 62.6 cm (29 3/4 x 24 5/8 in.) framed: 87.3 x 74.6 x 3.8 cm (34 3/8 x 29 3/8 x 1 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Accession Number
1965.15.7
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jeremiah Theus · 1716–1774
Jeremiah Theus (1716–1774) was a Swiss-born American portrait painter who became the leading artist in colonial Charleston, South Carolina. Born on April 5, 1716, in Chur, Switzerland, as the eldest child of Simeon and Anna Walser Theüs, he immigrated with his family in 1735 at age nineteen. The family settled in Orangeburgh Township under colonial land grants encouraging Protestant settlement. Th...