Sarah Onderdonk Floyd-Jones
Date1832
Artist
Shepard Alonzo Mount
(American artist, 1804–1868)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions32 3/4 × 26 1/4 in. (83.2 × 66.7 cm)
frame: 38 3/8 x 32 1/8 in. (97.5 x 81.6 cm)
frame: 38 3/8 x 32 1/8 in. (97.5 x 81.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1975
Object number1975-21
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextA wealthy woman from an old New York family who lived in South Oyster Bay, New York, Sarah Floyd-Jones (1758–1844) was the mother of New York politician Henry Onderdonk Floyd-Jones. She was likely a distant relative of the artist, who was just getting his footing as a portraitist--by producing portraits of his paternal relatives on their Long Island estate--in 1832 when this was painted.
