Sarah Blake Sturgis
1835
Artist, American, 1800 - 1880
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 61.3 x 46 cm (24 1/8 x 18 1/8 in.)
framed: 77.2 x 64.5 x 7.3 cm (30 3/8 x 25 3/8 x 2 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1947.17.18
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Samuel Parkman Sturgis [1803-1877], brother of the sitter, Canton, China; his brother, James Sturgis [1822-1888], Boston; his son, Charles Wilkins Sturgis [1849-1913], Boston. (Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus F. de Forest], New York); purchased 10 October 1921 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848 1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection on 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.
[1] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1921
Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 13.
1926
A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1926, 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, as Sarah Blake Sturgis.
Bibliography
1914
Sturgis, Roger Faxton, ed. Edward Sturgis and His Dependants. Boston, 1914.
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 Sarah Blake Sturgis.
1953
Pierce, Catharine W. "Francis Alexander." Old-Time New England 44 (October-December) 1953: 44.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 10, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 20, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 20, 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: 4-6, repro.
Inscriptions
lower center reverse: Fr. Alexander Pinxet 1835
Wikidata ID
Q20186007