Dr. John Edwards Holbrook
1857
Artist, American, 1816 - 1906
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 72 x 58.9 cm (28 3/8 x 23 3/16 in.)
framed: 94.6 x 81.9 x 7 cm (37 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1947.17.57
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist, New York; his estate, in 1908.[1] (sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 26 November 1920, no. 90); Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] 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] Memorial Exhibition of Works by the Late Daniel Huntington, N.A., Exh. cat. Century Association, New York, 1908: 5. [2] The name of the auction house and the date of the purchase by Clarke are recorded in a copy of Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke (Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928) annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1908
Memorial Exhibition of Works by the Late Daniel Huntington, N.A., Century Association, New York, 1908, no. 28.
1923
Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, 1923, no. 14.
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 John Edwards Holbrook.
A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1928, no. 9.
1967
Loan for display with permanent collection, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1967-1981.
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.
1950
Mansueti, Romeo. "Father of American Herpetology." Nature Magazine 43 (January 1950): repro. 19.
1952
Rutledge and Lane 1952, 124.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 70, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 179, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 208, 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: 337-339, repro.
Inscriptions
on reverse, hidden by lining: Dr. Holbrook of / S.Carolina / 1856 or 7
Wikidata ID
Q20188385