Portrait of a Lady

c. 1715/1730

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 75.1 x 62.9 cm (29 9/16 x 24 3/4 in.)
    framed: 90.2 x 78.1 x 7.9 cm (35 1/2 x 30 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.41

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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, as a portrait of Anne van Cortland by Gerret Duyckinck;[1] sold by Clarke's executors to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), from whom it was purchased 29 January 1936, as part of the Clarke collection, by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift to NGA, 1947.
[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). The provenance from James de Lancey, of New York, son of the supposed sitter, supplied by the dealer, de Forest, cannot be verified.

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. 3, as Anne Van Cortlandt by Gerret Duyckinck.

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 Anne Van Cortlandt by Gerret Duyckinck.

Bibliography

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 158, repro., as American (?).

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 307, as Unknown [Formerly Considered American].

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 310-311, repro. 310.

Inscriptions

probably falsely signed and dated, lower right: Gt. Duyckinck A.D. 1699

Wikidata ID

Q20177770

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