Portrait of Mildered Keen Bringhurst (1771-1840). Sitter is in 3/4 pose, Wearing white lace bonnet with bows at sides and under chin. Dark hair, light brown gown with puffed and pleated sleeves, long white lace shawl over shoulder. Small red and gold pin with black ribbon on her lower right. Dark background, carved wood frame.
Label, "Mildred Keen Bringhurst (1771-1840). Daughter of John Keene and Mildred Cooke. Both she and her husband, Jesse, are buried in Germantown's lower burial ground."
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil, wood
Made/Created
Date made
1825 - 1835
Place
* Untyped Place
USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia or Germantown
Dimensions
Height
29-1/2 in
Width
25-3/4 in
Relationships
Related Publications
Publication
Family File- Bringhurst, Keen
Family FIle- Longstreth
Bringhurst- see:
Indices: Photo, Crier, Obit
Photo Scrapbooks & Boxes
Glass Negatives
Leach, J.G. History of the Bringhurst Family with Notes on the Clarkson, DePeyster and Bonde Families, 1901
Longstreth Taylor, Agnes. The Longstreth Family Records
Leach, F.W., Old Philadelphia Families, p. 160, 1911
Provenance
Notes
See GHS True Accession Book #315, "Original painting of Mr. and Mrs. Bringhurst. Jesse born December 1770, died April 24, 1822. Wife born 1771, died Dec 4, 1840."
Donated by Frank Bringhurst, 1913
Portrait of Jessie Bringhurst, GHS 314
