Mrs. Peter De Lancey
Elizabeth Colden (1720–1784), daughter of Cadwallader and Alice Christie Colden (22.45.6 and .7), married Peter De Lancey, a wealthy and influential New Yorker, in 1737. They lived on the De Lancey estate in lower Westchester (a site now in the New York Zoological Park, near 181st Street). Their twelve children were born there. Her husband died in 1770. By the end of the Revolution, she had witnessed not only the destruction of her old home at De Lancey Mills, and the plundering of her house at Union Hill, but the division of her family along political lines. Previously attributed to John Singleton Copley, this portrait has been reattributed to Pratt on the basis of style. It was probably executed around 1771 when Pratt painted a portrait of Mrs. De Lancey’s father (Chamber of Commerce, New York).
Artwork Details
- Title: Mrs. Peter De Lancey
- Artist: Matthew Pratt (1734–1805)
- Date: ca. 1771
- Culture: American
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 29 3/4 x 25 in. (75.6 x 63.5 cm)
- Credit Line: Bequest of Edith Pratt Maxwell, 1956
- Object Number: 57.38
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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