Mrs. Ward Nicholas Boylston (Alicia Darrow)
Chester Harding
(American, 1792–1866)
about 1840
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions91.12 x 73.02 cm (35 7/8 x 28 3/4 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Barbara Boylston Bean
Accession number1976.670
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Not on viewClassificationsPaintings
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ProvenanceThe artist; descended in Boylston family to probably Ward Nicholas Boylston, M.D., grandson of the sitter, Princeton, Mass.; to Mrs. Louisa C.A. Nightingale, his sister, Providence, R.I., 1887; to Ward Nicholas Boylston, Jr., her nephew, Brattleboro, Vt., 1925; to Mrs. Barbara Boylston Bean, his sister, Auburn, Me., 1963; to MFA, 1976, gift of Barbara Boylston Bean.
