Portrait of a Man, c. 1845

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 86.4 x 68.6 cm (34 x 27 in.)

framed: 108.6 x 91.4 x 10.8 cm (42 3/4 x 36 x 4 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.59

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (painter)

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Inscription

falsely signed and dated, lower left: H. Inman / 1841

Provenance

(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York); purchased 12 April 1922 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; 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.

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
de Forest, Rose M.

Exhibition History

1923: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, 1923, no. 19, as Charles Fenno Hoffman by Henry Inman.

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 Charles Fenno Hoffman by Henry Inman.

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 Charles Fenno Hoffman by Henry Inman.

1940: Bolton, Theodore. "A Catalogue of Paintings by Henry Inman." Supplement to The Art Quarterly 3 (1940): 417.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 146, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 290, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 420, repro.

1998: Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 299-301, repro.