(American, 1783-1861)
Mary Woodbridge Perkins, apparently unsigned, oil on canvas, 30-1/2 x 25-1/2 in.; original period gilt wood frame, 35 x 30 inches

Provenance: The sitter; by descent through the family to Louise Lusk, great-great-granddaughter of the sitter, and Collier Platt; By descent through the family to the present owner, New York (see note above).

Exhibited: Benjamin West and His American Students,  The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, October 16, 1980 – January 4, 1981;  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 30 – April 19, 1981 (label verso).

Note:  According to the consignor, the sitter in this portrait is Mary Shaw Perkins (formerly Mary Shaw Woodbridge), born in 1791 and died in 1818, at age 27. She was married to Henry Perkins, and together they had a daughter in 1812, named Mary Woodbridge Perkins. She married Levi Hart Goddard, and they had a daughter named Mary Woodbridge Goddard in 1846, later known as Mary Woodbridge Tiffany after she married the artist Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1872. The Tiffanys had four children, the oldest named Mary Woodbridge Tiffany, born in 1873. She married Graham Lusk, and they had a daughter named Louise Lusk, who married Thomas Collier Platt, and are the grandparents of the present owner and descendant of Mrs. Mary Woodbridge Perkins, and Louis Comfort Tiffany.