Portrait of a light-skinned woman with dark curly hair and to her right a small, blond child. Both are elegantly dressed, the woman in a dark, short-sleeved dress with gathered bodice and the child in a short-sleeved white dress.

Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan

Joshua Johnson (American, 1763–1843)

Date
c. 1805
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
32¾ × 28¾ in (82.9 × 72.8 cm)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1998.315. See the museum’s record
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Robin and Timm R. Reynolds and Jill Burnside Zeno; Bulley and Andrews, Edna Graham, Love Galleries, Mary Swissler Oldberg, Ratcliffe Foundation, and Quinn E. Delaney funds; Walter Aitken, Dr. Julian Archie, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Herst, Jay W. McGreevy, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Puth, Stone Foundation, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker, Jr. endowment funds; through prior acquisitions of the George F. Harding Collection and Ruth Helgeson

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0).

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Print
17½ × 20 in, the whole painting on 20 × 20 in paper
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan: a 17½ × 20 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
17½ × 20 in portrait print (45 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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