Mount Tom

1865

Thomas Charles Farrer

Associated Names
Thomas Charles Farrer

Artist, British, 1839 - 1891

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West Building Main Floor, Gallery M65

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    John Wilmerding Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 40.6 x 61.6 cm (16 x 24 1/4 in.)
    framed: 64.14 × 83.5 × 8.89 cm (25 1/4 × 32 7/8 × 3 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.89.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William C. Gilman, by 1867. Henry J. Messinger.[1] (sale, Christie's, New York, 24 November 1979, no. 37); (Berry-Hill Galleries, New York); acquired 1979 by Judith and Wilbur Ross Jr., New York); (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York); sold May 2002 to John Wilmerding, New York [1938-2024]; bequest 2025 to NGA.
[1] A label on the reverse reads "MT TOM / painted by Thomas C. Farrer / bought by Henry W. Messinger." Judging from the label's apparent age, it probably refers to an owner who would have had the painting some time after Gilman but well before the auction in 1979.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1865

  • Exhibited at the study of Dr. Eddy, third floor of S.C. Parson's block on Shop Row, Northampton Massachussets, 1865.

1867

  • Exhibition, The Brooklyn Art Association, March 1867, no. 1.

1980

  • A Mirror of Creation: 150 Years of American Nature Painting, The Vatican Museum, Vatican City, 1980, no. 21, repro.

1981

  • Arcadian Vales: View of the Connecticut River Valley, 1981, no. 12, repro.

1985

  • The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1985, no.11, pl. 2.

2004

  • American Masters from Bingham to Eakins. The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005, no. 10, repro.

2019

  • The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, no. 14, repro.

Bibliography

1999

  • Barringer, Tim. Reading th Pre-Raphaelites. New Haven, 1999: 78, fig. 54.

2001

  • Wiles, Stephanie. "Between England and America: The Art of Thomas Charles Farrer and Henry Farrer." Ph.D Dissertation, The City University of New York, 2001: 430, no. T51.

2004

  • "The John Wilmerding Collection: 'A Cause for Celebration.'" Antiques and the Arts Weekly(November 2004): 67.

Inscriptions

lower right in monogram: TCF

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