Hannah Vaughan
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Inscription

Center left: F Cotes px [...] 1766. (Fand C joined)

Provenance

1766, Benjamin Vaughan (b. 1713 - d. 1786), and Hannah Halfhide Vaughan (b. 1707 - d. 1787), Great Parndon, Sussex, England (original commission) [see note 1]; by descent within the family; 1900/05, sold by a member of the Vaughan family, England, to Benjamin Vaughan (b. 1837 - d. 1912), Cambridge, MA [see note 2]; by descent to his daughter, Bertha H. Vaughan (b. 1866 - d. 1948), Cambridge, MA; 1948, by inheritance to Samuel Vaughan, Boston, and Mrs. Mary Vaughan Marvin, New York; 1948, gift of Samuel Vaughan and Mary Vaughan Marvin to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 11, 1948)



NOTES:

[1] The sitter, Hannah Halfhide, married Benjamin Vaughan, a scrivener and ship broker of Ballyhoe, Tipperary, England, in 1736. His portrait, also by Francis Cotes, came to the MFA along with his wife's. Both are buried in Great Pardon, Essex, England, according to the family's Bible and documents.

[2] The name of the descendant who sold the paintings to Benjamin Vaughan was "Hyne-Hancock" or "Vaughan-Arbuckle" from the English line of the family. The donors are direct descendents of the sitter's brother, Samuel Vaughan, according to their letter to the MFA.

Credit Line

Gift of Samuel Vaughan and Mary Vaughan Marvin

Hannah Vaughan

Dimensions
127.6 x 101.9 cm (50 1/4 x 40 1/8 in.)
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Type
Portrait - Single - Female; Pendant
Accession Number
48.278
On view
Britain, 1750–1800 / Portraits - 141

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