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Description: | Oil on canvas. Sarah Vaughan (née Hallowell), the wife of merchant Samuel Vaughan, is shown with her sewing basket on the table next to her. She wears the fruits of her husband’s success: pendant earrings, a pearl necklace and elaborate bracelet. Their son, Richard, holds a book, referring back to those in the companion portrait of his father (GAC 16744).
Artist Robert Edge Pine painted this pair of portraits in London, where Samuel Vaughan, a West Indian trader and planter, had settled and become a prominent businessman. Sarah Vaughan was the daughter of Benjamin Hallowell of Boston, Massachusetts. Samuel became one of Pine's most important patrons and he, his wife and all of their eleven children sat to the artist.
The Government Art Collection purchased these portraits at Sotheby's, London, in 1990, when they were sold by a descendant of the sitter. A group portrait of Vaughan’s children: Sarah, Samuel, Barbara, Rebecca and Hannah; and a single portrait of their son, Richard, all by Pine, were also included in the sale. | Subjects: | philosopher American Sarah Vaughan (née Hallowell) | Richard Vaughan son engineering armchair bracelet child female portrait mother 18th century costume pearls woman wife dress ribbon book basket trader boy necklace | Temporal: | 1760 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Robert Edge Pine | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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