Portrait of a Lady

c. 1845

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 63.2 x 50.8 cm (24 7/8 x 20 in.)
    framed: 77.8 x 7 x 7.3 cm (30 5/8 x 2 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.66

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Weidenback Galleries, New York); sold 4 May 1921 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; 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.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1921

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 10, as Grace Greenwood by Charles Bird King.

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 Grace Greenwood by Charles Bird King.

1991

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary Lynn Martin, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., 1991-1993.

1993

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary Robert Reich, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., 1993.

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 Grace Greenwood by Charles Bird King.

1929

  • Salisbury, William. "The Clarke Collection of Paintings." Antiquarian 12, no. 5 (June 1929): 46.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 144, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 288, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 418, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20187489


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