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Jacob Eichholtz

Phoebe Cassidy Freeman (Mrs. Clarkson Freeman), c. 1830

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 68.9 x 56.6 cm (27 1/8 x 22 5/16 in.)

framed: 82.2 x 69.5 x 7.6 cm (32 3/8 x 27 3/8 x 3 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.45

Artists / Makers

Jacob Eichholtz (artist) American, 1776 - 1842

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Provenance

Probably Robert Lindsay Eichholtz [1833-1912], Lancaster; his stepdaughter, Susan L. Ziegler; sold December 1920 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

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Eichholtz, Robert Lindsay
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Ziegler, Susan L.

Exhibition History

1921: Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 11, as Mrs. Phoebe Freeman.

1928: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1928, no. 10.

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 Mrs. Phoebe Freeman.

1959: Jacob Eichholtz, Historical Society of York County, York, Pennsylvania, 1959, no. 36 (organized by Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg).

1969: Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842, Pennsylvania Painter, A Retrospective Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadalphia, 1969, no. 19, pl. 6.

2003: The Worlds of Jacob Eichholtz, Portrait Painter of the Early Republic, shown at one of three simultaneous venues: The Heritage Center of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 2003, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Technical Summary

The support is a medium-weight, plain-weave fabric that has been lined. The ground consists of a reddish pink layer beneath a light gray layer. Paint was applied in thin, opaque layers with little texture. Minor areas of inpainting are apparent in the bottom left and top right corners of the painting. The entire background appears to have been overpainted, as can be seen in the area surrounding the sitter's hair, where the brown has been applied over the original paint layer. The painting was relined in 1959 at which time discolored varnish was removed from the face and décolletage. The varnish has become slightly discolored.

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 Mrs. Pheobe Freeman.

1928: Sherman, Frederick Fairchild. "Portraits and Miniatures by Copley, Dunlap, Eichholtz, and Robert Street." Art in America 16 (April 1928): 126.

1932: Sherman 1932, 106.

1958: Beal, Rebecca J. "Further Review of the Work of Jacob Eichholtz." Dauphin County Historical Review 6 (December 1958): 28.

1960: Milley, John Calvin. "Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842." Master's thesis, University of Delaware, 1960: no. 292, 91.

1969: Beal, Rebecca J. Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842. Philadelphia, 1969: no. 292, 91.

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: 174, 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: 216, color repro. 215.