Portrait of a Man, c. 1785

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 87.6 x 69.9 cm (34 1/2 x 27 1/2 in.)

framed: 109.2 x 92.4 x 8.9 cm (43 x 36 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.32

Artists / Makers

Unknown 18th Century (painter)

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Provenance

(Lewis & Simmons); sold 25 November 1913 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.
Lewis & Simmons
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.

Exhibition History

1921: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 21, as Jeremiah Taylor by John Singleton Copley.

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 Jeremiah Taylor by John Singleton Copley.

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 Jeremiah Taylor by John Singleton Copley.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 170, repro., as by European of Unknown Nationality.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 307, as by Unknown [Formerly Considered American].

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 409, repro.