Portrait of a Man
second quarter 18th century
Painter
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 76.2 x 65.7 cm (30 x 25 7/8 in.)
framed: 94.3 x 81.9 x 4.1 cm (37 1/8 x 32 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1947.17.47
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 22 October 1926 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
1926
A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1926, no. 12, as Jonathan Belcher by Nathaniel Emmons.
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 Jonathan Belcher by Nathanial Emmons.
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 Jonathan Belcher by Nathaniel Emmons.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 172, 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: 411, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20177817