Boy of Hallett Family with Dog

Arts of the Americas

1766–76

Artist unknown (American, 18th century)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Boy of Hallett Family with Dog
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1766–1776
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76.2 × 64.8 cm (30 × 25 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Reference Number: 1938.1333
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Waldron Phoenix Belknap Jr., American Colonial Painting: Materials for a History (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959), 72 (ill.), as Boy of the Hallett Family.
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 12, as Boy with Dog.

Captain Samuel Hallett (1722–1796), Hallett’s Cove, Hellgate Neck, Newtown (Astoria), Queens, NY, and St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; by descent through the family to Muriel Y. Whitlock (1892-1950), Calais, ME, by 1938. With Katrina Kipper (1884-1973), Accord, MA, by 1938; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1938.

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