Master Betty, c. 1804

Not on View

Medium

pastel on paper mounted on canvas

Dimensions

Overall: 40.6 x 35.6 cm (16 x 14 in.)

framed: 49.5 x 45 x 5 cm (19 1/2 x 17 11/16 x 1 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.36

Artists / Makers

Anonymous Artist (painter)

James Ramsay (artist after) British, 1786 - 1854

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Inscription

Falsely center left: W. Dunlap

Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); purchased 15 August 1927 by 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.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
de Forest, Rose M.

Exhibition History

1928: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1928, no. 4, as John Howard Payne by William Dunlap.

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 John Howard Payne by William Dunlap.

Bibliography

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 164, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 280, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 307, as by British School.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 324, repro.