Julianna Hazlehurst

c. 1820

Jacob Eichholtz

Painter, American, 1776 - 1842

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 75.3 x 62.9 cm (29 5/8 x 24 3/4 in.)
    framed: 103.2 x 90.5 x 6.4 cm (40 5/8 x 35 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.110

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly Mary B. Hazelhurst Mason. Acquired 24 February 1925 by 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] The provenance of this object is unclear. A circa 1954 note (in NGA curatorial files) includes it in a list of Clarke collection objects that came through the dealer Augustus de Forest and that bore false signatures in red paint; however, other Clarke collection records do not list this work as a de Forest painting. Further file notes indicate that it was "said to be from the collection of Mary Hazelhurst [sic], Westtown, Pennsylvania, a niece of the sitter," but again no evidence exists. There are also letters dated 9 and 27 April 1925 (in NGA curatorial files) from Mary B. Hazlehurst Mason of Westtown concerning her aunt (the sitter) to Charles X. Harris (Clarke's agent), but their content concerns genealogy rather than purchase arrangements.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1928

  • A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1928, no. 19, as by Thomas Sully.

  • 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 by Thomas Sully.

1971

  • Extended loan for use by The Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1971-1988.

1972

  • Extended loan for use in Chief Justice Rehnquist's chambers, 1986-1988.

1995

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador Jeonnone Walker, U.S. Embassy residence, Prague, 1995-1998.

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 by Thomas Sully.

1969

  • Beal, Rebecca J. Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842. Philadelphia, 1969: no. 337, 105.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 56, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 153, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 172, 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: 211-213, repro.

Inscriptions

falsely signed, lower right at base of column in monogram: TS

Wikidata ID

Q20184383

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