Portrait of an Unknown Family with a Terrier, c. 1825/1835

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 103.3 x 80.5 cm (40 11/16 x 31 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.61.13

Artists / Makers

British 19th Century (painter)

Image Use

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Provenance

(Louis Lyons), New York, who sold it 1975 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;[1] by bequest to NGA, 1980.

[1] A document of unidentified source in the NGA curatorial file on this painting notes 10 March 1975 as the date of purchase from Lyons.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Lyons, Louis

Technical Summary

The medium-weight canvas is plain woven; it has been lined. The painting may have been cut down slightly on the left and right sides. The ground is light colored, probably white. The painting is executed in rich, opaque layers, in some passages blended wet into wet, with low impasto in the highlights. The paint surface is slightly abraded overall; a tear in the figure of the girl in the blue dress holding a basket of flowers has been repaired, and there is scattered retouching throughout. The natural resin varnish has discolored slightly.

Bibliography

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 436.

1992: Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 306-307, repro. 306.