Portrait of a Man

first quarter 18th century

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (original oval format): 69.8 x 57 cm (27 1/2 x 22 7/16 in.)
    support: 76.5 x 63.8 cm (30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.)
    framed: 92.1 x 78.7 x 4.4 cm (36 1/4 x 31 x 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.38

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 21 April 1924 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

1925

  • A Loan Exhibition of the Earliest Known Portraits of Americans Painted in This Country by Painters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, The Century Association, New York, 1925, no. 14, as Stephanus Van Cortlandt by Evert Duyckinck, 1st.

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 Stephanus Van Cortlandt by Evert Duyckinck,1st

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 Stephanus Van Cortlandt by Evert Duyckinck.

1932

  • Sherman 1932, 11.

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: 410, repro.

Inscriptions

Falsely center right: AE 50 E.D.

Wikidata ID

Q20177727

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