Portrait of a Man

c. 1835

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 76.9 x 63.2 cm (30 1/4 x 24 7/8 in.)
    framed: 99.7 x 87.3 x 10.2 cm (39 1/4 x 34 3/8 x 4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.8.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Augustus W. Oberwalder [Augustus de Forest], New York); Charles X. Harris, New York; purchased 5 June 1920 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; 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.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1921

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, December 1921, no. 10, as William Rush by John Neagle.

1925

  • Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925, no. 119, as William Rush by John Neagle.

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, as William Rush by John Neagle.

1947

  • Early American Portraits and Silver [Golden Jubilee of the Colonial Dames of America], J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 1947, no cat.

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1947.

1948

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

1949

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1949.

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.

  • Famous Americans, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1955, no cat.

Bibliography

1925

  • Fielding, Mantle. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925: no. 119, 146.

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, as William Rush by John Neagle.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 144, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 289, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 419, repro.

1998

  • Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 294-296, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20185955

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