Research Catalog

Title

Henry Benbridge, 1743-1812 : Charleston portrait painter / with essays by Maurie D. McInnis ... [et al.] ; catalog and transcription by Angela D. Mack.

Author

Benbridge, Henry, 1743-1812

Publication

Charleston, S.C. : Gibbes Museum of Art, [2000]

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Details

Additional Authors

• McInnis, Maurie Dee
• Mack, Angela D., 1952-
• Old Salem, Inc.
• Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, S.C.)

Description

xiv, 152 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 26 cm.

Alternative Title

Charleston portrait painter

Subject

• Benbridge, Henry, 1743-1812 > Exhibitions
• 1700-1799
• Portrait painting, American > South Carolina > Charleston > 18th century > Exhibitions
• Portrait painting, American > South Carolina > Charleston > Exhibitions
• Portrait painting > South Carolina > Charleston > 18th century > Exhibitions
• Charleston (S.C.) > Biography > Portraits > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at The Gallery at Old Salem, Incorporated, Winston-Salem, N.C., May 12-July 31, 2000, and at the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., Sept. 29-Dec. 31, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-144) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Robert G. Stewart -- "Our ingenious countryman Mr. Benbridge" / Maurie D. McInnis -- Dress and dissipation : costume in Henry Benbridge's Charleston paintings / Leslie Reinhardt -- Nature and setting in the art of Henry Benbridge / Roberta Sokolitz -- Observations on the attribution of portrait miniatures to Henry Benbridge and his wife, Esther Sage / Carol Aiken.

LCCN

^^^00008589^

OCLC

• 50664170
• SCSB-9973202

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library