Lucretia Coffin Mott

Object Details

Date

1842

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

Topic

Costume\Outerwear\Shawl

Costume\Headgear\Hat\Bonnet

Lucretia Coffin Mott: Female

Lucretia Coffin Mott: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer

Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer

Lucretia Coffin Mott: 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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Exhibition

Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900

On View

NPG, East Gallery 112

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Alan Valentine

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Object number

NPG.74.72

Type

Painting

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

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")

Metadata Usage

CC0

GUID

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4d5f538a2-c3f7-4626-907c-6671236b7a2c

Record ID

npg_NPG.74.72