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oil paint canvas
Not currently on view
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon, III
The portrait of two young children is signed and dated by Cosmo Alexander, an itinerant Scottish portrait artist who worked in the American colonies in the late 1700s. The date on the painting (1761) suggests it was made before he came to this country. But if we compare it to one of his later, “American” canvases, like the "Portrait of a Lady" attributed to him that hangs nearby, we can see that he worked in roughly the same style on both sides of the Atlantic. While in America, Alexander met and eventually became a mentor to Gilbert Stuart, whose portrait of Isaac Gouverneur hangs nearby.
Accession Number: 1998.127
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