Roma Lyman, model 1867, carved 1867-1873

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Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 107.95 × 63.5 × 35.56 cm (42 1/2 × 25 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the subject, Roma Lyman Niles)

Accession Number

2015.19.3715

Artists / Makers

William Henry Rinehart (sculptor) American, 1825 - 1874

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Inscription

on tree trunk, right rear: WM. H. RINEHART / SCULPT 1873

Provenance

The sitter's father, Rt. Rev. Theodore Benedict Lyman [1815-1893];[1] probably by inheritance to his daughter, the sitter, Roma Lyman Niles [1862-1955, Mrs. Robert L. Niles]; gift 1947 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Lyman was Assistant Bishop and then Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina from 1873 until his death in 1893. He spent the 1860s abroad, and served for a time as chaplain at the American Embassy in Rome, where his daughter Anna Cornelia, known as "Roma," was born, and where she spent time in the garden of William Rinehart's studio. According to letters from the donor and her son, in NGA curatorial files, the sculpture traveled the world with the family, and was in Mrs. Niles' Kent, Connecticut, residence at the time she made the gift to the Corcoran.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Lyman, Theodore Benedict, Rt. Rev.
Niles, Roma Lyman

Exhibition History

1951: Progress of a Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 7 January - 18 March 1951, no catalogue.

1966: Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 15 April - 30 September 1966, no catalogue.

1988: American Neoclassical Sculpture at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1988, unnumbered brochure.

Bibliography

1965: Stevens, Elisabeth. "A Nosegay of 19th Century Art." The Washington Post and Herald Tribune (June 1965): G7.