Mrs. Reuben Allerton (Lois Atherton)
1821–22
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
83.8 × 69.9 cm (33 × 27 1/2 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
55710
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Ammi Phillips was a self-taught, itinerant portrait painter and plied his trade in western Connecticut, western Massachusetts, and New York. He first appeared as a professional portrait painter in a July 29, 1809, advertisement placed in the Berkshire Reporter (Pittsfield, Massachusetts), in which he promised to paint likenesses and profiles over the following weeks in his room at Clarke's Tavern. A doctor in Pine Plains, New York, Cornelius Allerton was forty-two years old when Phillips painte...
About the Artist
Ammi Phillips · 1788–1865
Comment on works: painter