Susie Kent Southwick
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
The sitter was the only daughter of John and Ella Southwick, prominent Brooklyn residents who lived in a handsome brownstone house at 34 Livingston Street. John Southwick, a collector of paintings, owned Lake George, by John F. Kensett. and A Catskill Stream, by Asher B, Durand, both of which Susie Southwick would give to the BMA in 1933 in memory of her parents. Southwick also commissioned a series of family portraits during the 1870s. Including this one of Susie seated in a landscape setting by the genre painter Thomas Waterman Wood.
Caption
Thomas Waterman Wood (American, 1823–1903). Susie Kent Southwick, 1873. Oil on canvas, 12 × 9 7/8 in. (30.5 × 25.1 cm) frame: 17 1/4 × 15 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (43.8 × 38.7 × 3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the American Art Council, 1999.54.7. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Susie Kent Southwick
Date
1873
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
12 × 9 7/8 in. (30.5 × 25.1 cm) frame: 17 1/4 × 15 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (43.8 × 38.7 × 3.8 cm)
Signatures
Signed at lower center of oval image: "T.W. Wood / 1873"
Credit Line
Gift of the American Art Council
Accession Number
1999.54.7
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