Inscription
lower left: R. Earl Pinxt 1789-
Provenance
The sitter's grandson, Rev. William S. Boardman [b. 1838], New York.[1] The sitter's great-grandniece, Josephine Porter Boardman Crane [Mrs. Winthrop Murray Crane, 1873-1972], New York and Woods Hole, Massachusetts, by 1935;[2] gift 1948 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1935
- Connecticut Portraits by Ralph Earl, 1751-1801, Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, 1935, no. 15.
- 1940
- Masterpieces of Art. European & American Paintings 1500-1900, New York World's Fair, 1940, no. 172.
- 1945
- Ralph Earl, 1751-1801, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Worcester Art Museum, 1945-1946, no. 14.
- 1946
- American Painting, The Tate Gallery, London, 1946, no. 76.
- 1991
- Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 1991-1992, 152, no. 28.
Bibliography
- 1895
- Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy 1525-1895. Hartford, 1895: 331.
- 1907
- Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College. 1907: 4:182.
- 1934
- Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. "Ralph Earl: An Eighteenth Century Connecticut Portrait Painter." Art in America 22, no. 3 (June 1934): 83, 88, repro. facing 81.
- 1935
- Connecticut Portraits by Ralph Earl, 1751-1801. Exh. cat. Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, 1935: no. 15.
- 1939
- Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. "The Painting of Ralph Earl With a List of His Portraits." Art in America 27, no. 4 (October 1939): 177, no. 33.
- 1945
- Ralph Earl, 1751-1801. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Worcester Art Museum, 1945-1946: no. 14.
- 1946
- American Painting. Exh. cat. The Tate Gallery, London, 1946: no. 76.
- 1946
- Goodrich, Lloyd. "Ralph Earl." Magazine of Art 39, no. 1 (January 1946): 5, repro. 2 (detail).
- 1960
- Sawitzky, William, and Susan Sawitzky. "Two Letters from Ralph Earl, with Notes on his English Period." Worcester Art Museum Annual 8 (1960): 27, repro. 26 (detail).
- 1967
- Goodrich, Laurence B. Ralph Earl, Recorder of an Era. Albany, 1967: 9-10, 58, fig. 24.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 52, repro.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 150, repro.
- 1980
- Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: no. 11, color repro.
- 1981
- Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: 73, repro. 74.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 394, no. 560, color repro.
- 1988
- Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin. Ralph Earl: Artist-Entrepreneur. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988: 129-130, 258.
- 1988
- Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 70, no. 12, color repro.
- 1991
- Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth. New Haven, London, and Hartford, 1991-1992: 152, no. 28.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 169, repro.
- 1995
- Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 96-98, color repro. 97.
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