Portrait of a Man, mid 18th century

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 71.8 x 60.3 cm (28 1/4 x 23 3/4 in.)

framed: 87 x 78.1 x 9.2 cm (34 1/4 x 30 3/4 x 3 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.113

Artists / Makers

Unknown 18th Century (painter)

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Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 2 August 1921 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
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
de Forest, Rose M.

Exhibition History

1922: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, March 1922, no. 17, as Johann De Kalb by Jeremiah Theus.

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 Johann de Kalb by Jeremiah Theus.

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 Johann De Kalb by Jeremiah Theus.

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.