Thomas W. Dyott, c. 1836

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 75.5 x 63.5 cm (29 3/4 x 25 in.)

framed: 97.8 x 85.1 x 7.6 cm (38 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 3 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.78

Artists / Makers

John Neagle (artist) American, 1796 - 1865

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Provenance

Ferdinand J. Dreer [1812-1902], Philadelphia; (his estate sale, Stan. V. Henkels, Philadelphia, 6 June 1913, no. 93, as Dr. F. W. Dyott by Nagle [sic]); 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
Dreer, Ferdinand J.
Henkels, Stan. V.
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.

Exhibition History

1922: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, March 1922, no. 23.

1925: Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925, no. 122.

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.

1969: Inaugural Exhibition: American Portraits, The Art Museum, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1969, no cat.

Bibliography

1925: Fielding, Mantle. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925: 149.

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.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 84, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 201, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 394, no. 564, color repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 239, 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: 27-30, color repro.