Henry Theodore Tuckerman

1866

Daniel Huntington

Artist, American, 1816 - 1906

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 68.2 x 56.2 cm (26 7/8 x 22 1/8 in.)
    framed: 80.3 x 70.2 x 6.7 cm (31 5/8 x 27 5/8 x 2 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.7

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist, New York; his estate, in 1908.[1] George D. Smith.[2] (sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 26 November 1920, no. 84); Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[3] 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 1947 to NGA.
[1] Memorial Exhibition of Works by the Late Daniel Huntington, N.A., Exh. cat. Century Association, New York, 1908: 7. [2] Anna Wells Rutledge and James W. Lane ("110 Paintings in the Clarke Collection," typescript, 1952: 125, copy in NGA curatorial files) note that Knoedler & Co. records listed "George D. Smith" as a previous owner, without providing further details or dates.
[3] The name of the auction house and the date of the purchase by Clarke are recorded in a copy of Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke (Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928) annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1867

  • Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1867, no. 347.

  • Utica Art Association Annual, New York, 1867, no. 54.

  • Oil Paintings on Exhibition at Providence Horse Guards Armory (late Westminster Hall), under the Auspices of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry, 1867, no. 114.

1872

  • First Chronological Exhibition of American Art, Brooklyn Art Association, New York, 1872, no. 68.

1877

  • Brooklyn Art Association Annual, 1877, no. 436, as Portrait.

1908

  • Memorial Exhibition of Works by the Late Daniel Huntington, N.A., Century Association, New York, 1908, no. 51.

1924

  • Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, February 1924, no. 7.

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.

1950

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1950.

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.

1967

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1967-2000.

Bibliography

1867

  • "Fine Arts. Exhibition of the National Academy of Design." The Albion 45 (20 April 1867): 189.

  • "Art Matters. National Academy of Design." The American Art Journal 7 (4 May 1867): 22.

1868

  • "Our Artists. I. The President of the Academy." Putnam's Magazine 1 (March 1868): 374.

1872

  • "Art Gossip." New York Evening Mail (1 April 1872).

1877

  • "The Brooklyn Art Association." New York Evening Post (23 April 1877).

1914

  • Tuckerman, Bayard. Notes on the Tuckerman Family of Massachusetts and Some Allied Families. Boston, 1914: 175.

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.

1952

  • Rutledge and Lane 1952, 125.

1969

  • Flexner, James Thomas. "Tuckerman's Book of the Artists." The American Art Journal 1 (Fall 1969): repro. 57.

1970

  • Marlor, Clark S. A History of the Brooklyn Art Association with an Index of Exhibitions. New York, 1970: repro., n.p.

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 70, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 179, repro.

1983

  • Nearpass, Kate. "The First Chronological Exhibition of American Art, 1872." Archives of American Art Journal 23 (1983): 24, repro.

1984

  • Johns, Elizabeth. "Histories of American Art: The Changing Quest." Art Journal 44 (Winter 1984): repro. 339.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 208, 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: 339-341, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: D. Huntington / 1866; possibly in a different hand, on back of stretcher: Henry J (sic). Tuckerman by D. Huntington 1866.

Wikidata ID

Q20188680

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