Provenance
The sitter [1802-1864], Cold Spring, New York, and New York.[1] (Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus], New York); sold 8 November 1917 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] 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.
Exhibition History
- 1836
- Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1836, no. 146.
- 1922
- Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, March 1922, no. 20.
- 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.
- 1950
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1950.
- 1951
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951.
- 1953
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.
- 1955
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
- 1956
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956.
- 1987
- The Art of Henry Inman, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1987, no. 45.
Bibliography
- 1836
- "National Academy of Design." New York Evening Post (25 May 1836).
- 1836
- "National Academy of Design." New York Herald (12 May 1836).
- 1836
- "National Academy of Design." Spirit of the Times 6 (21 May 1836): 106.
- 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.
- 1933
- Bolton, Theodore. "Henry Inman, Portrait Painter." Creative Art 12 (February 1933): 160, as George Peples Morris.
- 1940
- Bolton, Theodore. "A Catalogue of the Paintings of Henry Inman." The Art Quarterly 3 (1940): 410, no. 98.
- 1944
- Richardson, Edgar P. American Romantic Painting. New York, 1944: 38, no. 89, repro.
- 1952
- Rutledge and Lane 1952, 87.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 72, repro.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 180, repro.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 209, 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: 347-349, repro.
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