A Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel (1743-1830): Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 96, Part 4) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871699640)

Drawing on original manuscript sources, Maxey has produced a persuasive study of a late-18th-century portrait and its subject. He has focused attention on an enigmatic painting, and the person portrayed in it -- a woman of talent and verve, whose life has remained undeservedly obscure. Elizabeth Willing Powel presided over a salon; spoke her mind freely; and maintained, for a period of 40 years, an extensive, illuminating correspondence. She was the trusted confidante of the country's first president, whom she did not hesitate to instruct on where duty summoned him. At a critical moment, the Philadelphia painter, Matthew Pratt, was commissioned to capture on canvas the grief she experienced. Color portrait.

Author: David W. Maxey
ISBN-10: 0871699648
ISBN-13: 9780871699640
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 106
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.31d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 81