Augustus Fielding Hawkins

c. 1820

Matthew Harris Jouett

Artist, American, 1788 - 1827

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on wood

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 71 x 53.5 cm (27 15/16 x 21 1/16 in.)
    framed: 91.1 x 78.1 cm (35 7/8 x 30 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.8.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The sitter [1798-1876]; his son, Strother Hawkins [1830-1905]; his daughter, Harriot Leavy Hawkins;[1] sold 22 March 1920 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Although legal ownership of the portrait never passed from the direct descendants, Augustus Fielding Hawkins' niece Mary Leavy took physical possession of it at an unknown date (possibly around 1905, when Strother Hawkins died). It was subsequently in the possession of her daughter Lizzie Leavy, who in 1917 turned it over to the rightful owner Harriot Leavy Hawkins; letter of 23 July 1920 from Harriot Hawkins (in NGA curatorial files).
[2] According to Clarke catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1922

  • Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, March 1922, no. 8.

1928

  • Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue.

1943

  • American Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1943.

1948

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1948.

1951

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951.

1953

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.

1955

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

1956

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956.

Bibliography

1902

  • Price, Samuel Woodson. The Old Masters of the Bluegrass--Jouett, Bush, Grimes, Frazer, Morgan, Hart. Louisville, 1902: no. 106, 56.

1928

  • Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered.

  • Cuthbert, Lee. "The Thomas B. Clarke Collection of Early American Portraits." American Magazine of Art 19 (June 1928): 304, repro. 303.

1939

  • Martin, Mary Farmer. Catalog of All Known Paintings by Matthew Harris Jouett. Louisville, 1939: no. 189, 25.

1968

  • Floyd, William Barrow. Jouett-Bush-Frazer: Early Kentucky Artists. Lexington, 1968: 48, 54, repro. 55.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 76, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 186, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 216, repro.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 385-387, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20184230

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