Portrait of Elizabeth Rodes Stone," 1844 Oil on canvas laid to aluminum backed by waxed canvas Unsigned, titled and dated on an artist's label affixed to the backing board 30" H x 25" W Provenance: The family of Robert Harris Stone and Elizabeth Rodes Stone, thence by descent to the present owner Literature: E. Maurice Bloch, "The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham, A Catalogue Raisonne" University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 1986, p. 60, no. 141, illustrated. Notes: Typed note on a gum label affixed to the backing board: "Passed on to my daughter, her great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Stone Pelly. October 1968.