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Sarah Lloyd Borland (Mrs. Leonard Vassall Borland)

Sarah Lloyd Borland (Mrs. Leonard Vassall Borland) Oil on wood panel
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Oil on wood panel by Gilbert Stuart, circa 1818

image 67.3 x 53.3 cm; in frame 91.3 x 77.5 x 9.8 cm

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[ This description is from the project: Revolutionary-era Art and Artifacts ]

This portrait of Sarah Lloyd Borland, wife of Leonard Vassall Borland and mother of six children, was completed by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) around 1818.

Sarah Lloyd Borland was born in 1762. She married Leonard Vassall Borland and bore six children. Leonard Borland was a Boston merchant who, in 1787, sold his grandfather's home in Braintree to John Adams. Sarah Borland died in Boston in 1839.