Collection Highlights
Leg brace
ca. 1940
2002.76
Leather, metal
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Museum Collections
Paintings
Elizabeth Naden (ca. 1739-1808)
Title
Elizabeth Naden (ca. 1739-1808)
Date
1756
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line
Gift of the Estate of Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr.
Object Number
1957.52
Marks
signed and dated: lower right: "J. Blackburn [pinxi] t 1756"
Gallery Label
Elizabeth Naden lived in Boston with her stepfather, Major Abraham Mortier, and her mother, Martha Naden Mortier, before becoming the wife of John Appy in 1757. Appy, secretary to the general and judge advocate of the British Army in North America, left her a widow four years later. In 1767 she married Goldsborough Banyar, Sr., and went to live in Albany where she remained for the rest of her life.
Provenance
The Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr. Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
