Thomas Benedict Clarke

American, 1848 - 1931

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American 19th Century, Portrait of a Man, c. 1835, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1942.8.8

Portrait of a Man

American 19th Century · c. 1835 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.8.8

Jacob Eichholtz, Julianna Hazlehurst, c. 1820, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1947.17.110

Julianna Hazlehurst

Jacob Eichholtz · c. 1820 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1947.17.110

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Amphora Vase, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with peachbloom glaze, Widener Collection, 1942.9.520

Amphora Vase

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with peachbloom glaze ·  Accession ID  1942.9.520

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Portrait of a Man

Unknown 18th Century · c. 1785 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1947.17.32

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James Massy-Dawson (?)

Henry Singleton · c. 1790/1800 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1954.1.11

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Portrait of a Man

American 19th Century · c. 1820 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1947.17.109

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Portrait of a Man

American 19th Century · c. 1825 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1947.17.61

Shown from the chest up, a pale-skinned, clean-shaven man wearing a sapphire-blue coat over a white cravat looks out from this vertical portrait painting. The man’s body is angled to our left, but he turns his face to look at us from the corners of his gray eyes. His smooth cheeks are flushed, and he smiles slightly. His white hair, probably a wig, sweeps back from his forehead and curls over his ears. His snow-white cravat is tied in a bow, and the pointed ends of the fabric fall over the wide lapels of his coat. The man is lit from our right, and a sheen on the high collar suggests velvet. Brass buttons gleam on the front of the coat. The background lightens from dark brown across the top to pale fawn brown along the bottom.
Anonymous Artist, William Constable, after 1796, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1954.1.9

William Constable

Anonymous Artist · after 1796 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1954.1.9

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Portrait of a Gentleman

British 18th Century · c. 1702/1720 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1947.17.86

John Neagle, Amy Taylor Dickson (Mrs. John Dickson), c. 1835, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1947.17.77

Amy Taylor Dickson (Mrs. John Dickson)

John Neagle · c. 1835 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1947.17.77

Bibliography

1933

  • Coburn, F.W. "Thomas Benedict Clarke." Dictionary of American Biography XXI, supplement 1 (1944):178-179.

1970

  • Towner, Wesley. The Elegant Auctioneers. New York, 1970: 149-151.

1976

  • Weinberg, H. Barbara. "Thomas B. Clarke: Foremost Patron of American Art from 1872 to 1899." The American Art Journal VIII, No. 1 (May 1976):52-70

1993

  • Saunders, Richard H. "The Eighteenth-Century Portrait in American Culture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." In The Portrait in eighteenth-century America. Ed. Ellen G. Miles. Newark and London, 1993: 138-152.