Portrait of a Man
c. 1785
Painter
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 87.6 x 69.9 cm (34 1/2 x 27 1/2 in.)
framed: 109.2 x 92.4 x 8.9 cm (43 x 36 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1947.17.32
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Lewis & Simmons); sold 25 November 1913 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] 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] 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 Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 21, as Jeremiah Taylor by John Singleton Copley.
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 Jeremiah Taylor by John Singleton Copley.
Bibliography
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 Jeremiah Taylor by John Singleton Copley.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 170, repro., as by European of Unknown Nationality.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 307, as by Unknown [Formerly Considered American].
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 409, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20179379