Portrait of a Man, c. 1830

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 122.9 x 92.4 cm (48 3/8 x 36 3/8 in.)

framed: 143.5 x 113 x 7 cm (56 1/2 x 44 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.76

Artists / Makers

British 19th Century (painter)

Image Use

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Provenance

(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York); sold 9 December 1925 to 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

1926: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1926, no. 15, as John Davis by John Neagle.

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 Davis by John Neagle.

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 John Davis by John Neagle.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 166, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 48, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 308.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 22, repro.