GILBERT STUART (Saunderstown, 1755-Boston, 1828) PORTRAIT OF ANNE WILLING BINGHAM (1764-1801) AND HER DAUGHTER MARIA MATILDA (1783-1849) Canvas 19th century French giltwood frame Bearing a label on the reverse of the frame stating the provenance "Portrait of my great aunt / Mrs William Bingham (née Anne / Willing) painted by G. Stuart and / given by her to her sister my grand / mother Mrs Henry Clymer (née Mary Willing) / who left it to my father William / Bingham Clymer her eldest son / Clymer ? Jacques de Bryas". Portrait of Anne Willing Bingham (1764-1801) and her daughter Maria Matilda (1783-1849), canvas, 19th century French giltwood frame 85 x 92 CM - 33,5 x 36,2 IN. For any registration request on this lot, please contact us directly at [email protected]. For any registration request on this lot, please contact us directly at [email protected]. Provenance Painted in 1784 for William Bingham and his wife Anne Willing ; Collection of Mary Willing Clymer and Henry Clymer (Anne Willing Bingham's sister and brother-in-law); By descent from Mis and Mise de Bryas, at the end of the 19th century. Through descendants to the present owner. Bibliography G. C. Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart, New York, 1879, pp. 137-139; L. Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works, with an Account of His Life by John Hill Morgan and an Appreciation by Royal Cortissoz, New York, 1926, pp. 151, 152, 154, 155, nos. 80, 81, 84 (dating the painting to 1784 probably due to the age of the youngest daughter born a year earlier in London); M. L. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. William Bingham of Philadelphia, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 1937, quoted p. 289, reproduced (dated 1784); R. C. Alberts, The Golden Voyage. The Life and Times of William Bingham 1752-1804, Boston, 1969, quoted pp. 149,150, reproduced ; Catalogue of the Gilbert Stuart Exhibition, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21 October 2004-16 January 2005, Washington, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 27 March - 31 July 2005, cited p. 198, p. 203 under no. 53 and note 5 ("Anne and William Bingham commissioned a family portait ; the picture was left unfinished..." ; "In London in 1784 or 1785 Stuart began a group portrait of Bingham and his wife, Anne, with theirs daughters Ann Louisa and Maria Matilda, leaving it unfinished, possibly because of a disagreement with Mrs. Bingham about the composition")