Object Details
Artist
Joseph Kyle, 1815 - 1863
Sitter
Lucretia Coffin Mott, 3 Jan 1793 - 11 Nov 1880
Exhibition Label
Born Nantucket, Massachusetts
Raised in the Quaker philosophy of universal equality, Lucretia Mott became an influential antislavery and women’s rights activist. In 1833, she helped organize the racially integrated Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. While participating in the second Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women in Philadelphia (1838), she was targeted by violent, anti-abolitionist mobs lashing out against the interracial gatherings and the “spectacle” of women making political speeches in public.
At the first World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, in 1840, male antislavery leaders relegated Mott and other women delegates to the back of the hall. In response, Mott joined forces with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to co-organize the 1848 convention in Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the women’s rights movement in the United States. The following year she wrote: “Let woman then go on—not asking as favor, but claiming as right, the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being.”
Nacida en Nantucket, Massachusetts
Criada según el precepto cuáquero de igualdad universal, Lucretia Mott fue una influyente abolicionista y defensora de los derechos femeninos. En 1833 ayudó a crear la Sociedad Femenina Antiesclavista de Filadelfia, organización racialmente integrada. Durante la segunda Convención Antiesclavista de Mujeres Estadounidenses en Filadelfia (1838), fue blanco de ataques por turbas antiabolicionistas que repudiaban las reunions interraciales y el “espectáculo” de mujeres haciendo discursos políticos en público.
En la primera Convención Antiesclavista Mundial en Londres (1840), los dirigentes hombres relegaron a Mott y otras delegadas al fondo de la sala. A raíz de esto, Mott se unió a Elizabeth Cady Stanton para organizar la convención de 1848 en Seneca Falls, Nueva York, que lanzó el movimiento feminista en EE.UU. Al año siguiente escribió: “Que la mujer siga entonces adelante, no pidiendo como favor, sino reclamando como derecho la eliminación de todo impedimento a su ascenso en la escala del ser”.
Provenance
Mrs. Hendon Chubb, Orange, New Jersey; her niece Mrs. Alan Valentine, Princeton, New Jersey; gift 1974 to NPG
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Alan Valentine
Date
1842
Object number
NPG.74.72
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Stretcher: 76.8 x 64.1 x 2.5cm (30 1/4 x 25 1/4 x 1")
Frame: 91.8 x 78.7 x 6cm (36 1/8 x 31 x 2 3/8")
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Exhibition
Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900
On View
NPG, East Gallery 112
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Topic
Costume\Outerwear\Shawl
Costume\Headgear\Hat\Bonnet
Lucretia Coffin Mott: Female
Lucretia Coffin Mott: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer
Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer
Lucretia Coffin Mott: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Teacher
Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Abolitionist
Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Suffragist
Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Feminist
Lucretia Coffin Mott: Religion and Spirituality\Clergy\Minister
Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Women's rights advocate
Portrait
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Record ID
npg_NPG.74.72