Horace Binney

1800

Gilbert Stuart

Painter, American, 1755 - 1828

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on wood

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Horace Binney

  • Dimensions

    overall: 73.5 x 60.5 cm (28 15/16 x 23 13/16 in.)
    framed: 104.1 x 91.4 x 11.4 cm (41 x 36 x 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1944.3.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Commissioned by the sitter for his sister, Susan [Mrs. John Bradford Wallace, 1778-1849], Philadelphia; her son, John William Wallace [1815-1884], Philadelphia, who returned the painting to his uncle, the sitter, Horace Binney; his daughter, Susan Binney [1822-1887], Philadelphia; her nephew, the Reverend John Binney [1844-1913], Middletown, Connecticut; his son, Dr. Horace Binney [1874-1956] Milton, Massachusetts;[1] gift 1944 to NGA.
[1] For the provenance from Susan Binney to Dr. Binney see Dr. Binney's letter of 14 November 1947 (NGA curatorial file), which provides dates for Susan Binney and Rev. John Binney. Other dates are found in Charles J. F. Binney, Genealogy of the Binney Family in the United States, Albany, NY, 1886: 66-67, 106-109, 188-189. Dr. Binney's death is recorded by the Harvard University Archives, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1928

  • Gilbert Stuart Memorial Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1928, no. 9

1964

  • [exhibition of portraits of outstanding early jurists and lawyers], Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, 1964.

2004

  • Barratt, Carrie Rebora, and Ellen G. Miles. Gilbert Stuart. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (for the Natl. Port. Gal.). New York, New Haven, and London, 2004: 5, 130, 131, 217, 262, fig. 77.

Bibliography

1867

  • Tuckerman 1867, 109.

1877

  • Stuart, Jane. "The Youth of Gilbert Stuart." Scribner's Monthly 8 (March 1877): 646.

1879

  • Mason, George C. The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart. New York, 1879: 139-142, pl. 51.

1880

  • "Portraits Painted by Stuart...taken from Mason's Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart." In Exhibition of Portraits Painted by Gilbert Stuart. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1880: 31, no. 68.

1905

  • Binney, Charles Chauncey. The Life of Horace Binney, With Selections from his Letters. Philadelphia and London, 1905: 42-44.

1926

  • Park 1926, 156, no. 86.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 102, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 228, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 350, 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: 219-221, color repro. 220.

Wikidata ID

Q20180683

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