Inscription
lower right, in red: M. Brown.
Provenance
Possibly owned by the sitter's widow, Philadelphia Hannah Freame, Viscountess Cremorne [1740/1741-1826], London[1] and left to her principal heir, Granville Penn [1761-1844], Pennsylvania Castle, Isle of Portland, Dorset, England.[2] Bought with the contents of Pennsylvania Castle by J. Meyrick Head, 1887; sold in his sale (Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 10 July 1916, no. 159); purchased by "Martin";[3] (Robinson & Farr, Philadelphia, 1916); sold 12 February 1917 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[4] 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.
Exhibition History
- 1922
- Portraits Painted in Europe by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, January 1922, no. 13.
- 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 Thomas Dawson.
- 1949
- Exhibition of Early American Portraits on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, North Carolina, 1949, no. 8, as Thomas Dawson.
- 1955
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
- 1956
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956.
Bibliography
- 1917
- Hart, Charles Henry. "Portrait of Thomas Dawson, Viscount Cremorne, Painted by Mather Brown." Art in America 5, no. 6 (October 1917): 309-314.
- 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.
- 1952
- Rutledge and Lane 1952, 62A.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 18, repro.
- 1972
- Evans, Dorinda. "Mather Brown (1761-1831): A Critical Study." Ph.D. dissertation, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, London, 1972: 78, 90-92, 100, 213, no. 43.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 30, repro.
- 1982
- Evans, Dorinda. Mather Brown: Early American Artist in England. Middletown, Connecticut, 1982: 78-79, repro. 80, 203.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 35, repro.
- 1995
- Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 17-20, color repro. 18.
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