Portrait of a Man

third quarter 18th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 65.4 x 91.4 cm (25 3/4 x 36 in.)
    framed: 74.9 x 66 x 5.1 cm (29 1/2 x 26 x 2 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.100

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 15 August 1927 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

1928

  • A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1928, no. 5, as Philip van Cortlandt by Adolph Ulrich Wertmüller

  • 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 cat., as Philip Van Cortlandt by Adolph Ulric Wertmüller.

1937

  • Loan to the U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, Washington, D.C.(?), 1937-1938 (according to note in NGA curatorial files).

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 Philip Van Cortlandt by Adolph Ulric Wertmüller.

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: 309.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 413, repro.

Inscriptions

Formerly bore false signature center left: A. Wertmuller/ Philadelphia 1795

Wikidata ID

Q20178028

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