Painting

Title:

Lucy Rust Mills with infant baby

Object Name:

Painting

Creator:

Joseph Stone

Date:

1790

Material:

Oil on acadaemy board

Dimensions:

H-4.75 L-21 Dia-7 inches
framed measurement

Description:

Primitive style portrait of Mrs. Lucy Rust Mills holding a baby and a rose in her right hand. The baby is Lucy Mills, born in 1796. Mrs. Mills has brown hair and is wearing a yellow beaded necklace with a blue dress and a white scarf. The baby has blonde hair and a white dress. The baby is sitting on Mrs. Mills' lap. Background is a shaded yellow color. Simple gilt frame. Mrs. Mills was the wife of Capt. Joseph Mills.

On back of portrait is a charcoal/pastel writing in black 27790/56 and a white label stating 'B8 8027f American 19th Portrait of General Mills Wife'

Provenance:

The portrait was painted by the folk artist Joseph Stone (1774-1818). He was born to Isaac and Persis Howe Stone in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is believed Stone worked on commissions as well as fire buckets, houses, coaches, and the like for multiple sources of income. Stone is sometimes referred to as the painter of the almond-shaped eye. The portrait was a gift of Joseph Carlton Beal in 1952.

Lucy Rust Mills was born on July 2, 1766, in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts to father Francis Rust. She married Joesph Mills in Ipswich, Masschusetts on August 13, 1785. The couple had eight children, John, Sarah, Charlotte, Polly, Joesph, Lucy Ann, Elizabeth, and Isabella.

Subjects:

Portrait, Mrs. Mills, Lucy Mills, Baby, 19th c. portraiture

People:

Mills, Lucy Rust

Place of Origin:

New England

Collection Name:

Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire

Item Number:

1990.162

Accession Number:

1990.162

Type of Material:

Objects

Copyright Statement:

For information regarding copyright, permissions, and reproductions contact the American Independence Museum

Credit Line:

Gift of Joseph Carlton Beal

Participating Organization:

American Independence Museum