John White, 1783

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 58.42 × 48.26 cm (23 × 19 in.)

framed: 65.72 × 57.79 × 5.72 cm (25 7/8 × 22 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

Accession Number

2014.136.98

Artists / Makers

James Peale (artist) American, 1749 - 1831

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Provenance

By inhertiance to the sitter's wife, Rebecca Bryan White [b. 1758], Huntington, New York, and Baltimore, Maryland; by inheritance to their daughter, Elizabeth White Bunce [b. 1780], Huntington; by inheritance to her daughter, Hannah Bunce Scudder [b. 1820]; by inheritance to her son, John Budd Scudder [b. 1846], Babylon, New York; by inheritance to his son, Fred C. Scudder [1873-1965], Babylon; by inheritance October 1965 to his wife, Mary F. Scudder, Babylon; purchased 1966 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Provenance according to correspondence dated 29 August 1966 from Mary F. Scudder to the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Scudder, Mary F.

Exhibition History

1994: Loan to display, Dumbarton House, Washington, 24 January-15 April 1994.

1996: The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870, Philadelphia Museum of Art; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996-1997, unnumbered checklist (shown only in Washington).

1996: The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870, Philadelphia Museum of Art; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996-1997, unnumbered checklist (Washington only).

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 311, repro.