Image: Mrs Nicklin etching from Gilbert Stuart painting

Description: Mrs Nicklin, etching by Stephen James Ferris from a c. 1795 Gilbert Stewart painting, when Mrs. Nicklin was about 30 years of age. "Mrs. Philip Nicklin (nee Julianna Chew), was the daughter of Chief Justice Benjamin Chew and Elizabeth Oswald Chew. Julianna Chew was baptized on the 20th of June 1765. Julianna Married Philip NIcklin on April 1793. "Featured in Koehler's "American Art Review" and in the Boston exhibition of 1881 was the portrait of Mrs. Philip Nicklin dated 1879, after a painting by Gilbert Stuart. It illustrated an article on historical portraiture by Charles Henry Hart, who commented that the etching was a 'beautiful portrait ... etched from the original. The lady represented was one of Philadelphia's beauties ... Julianna died on the eleventh of August 1845."[1] ↑ Stephen James Ferris - Mrs. Philip Nicklin
Title: Mrs Nicklin etching from Gilbert Stuart painting
Credit: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects by the best art writers. Volume 2. Boston, E.W. Walker & Co. 1889
Author: Walter Montgomery
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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