Thomas Jefferson

1848/1879

George Peter Alexander Healy

Painter, American, 1813 - 1894

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas B. Bryan [1828-1906], Chicago; sold 26 April 1879 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.

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Exhibition History

1876

  • Interstate Industrial Exposition, Chicago, 1876.

1947

  • Loan to display at Jefferson Junior High School, Washington, March 1926 - June 1943 and school years (October to June) of 1947-1958.

1957

  • The Bryan-Corcoran Collection of Presidential Portraits, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 March - 1 September 1957.

1961

  • Loan to display at The White House, Washington, 1961-1965.

1965

  • Loan to display at the U.S. Department of State, Washington, 1965.

1966

  • Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 15 April - 30 September 1966, unpublished checklist.

1972

  • The Great Game of Politics, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 6 October - 6 November 1972, no. 3.

1977

  • Loan to display in the Cabinet Room, The White House, Washington, 1977.

Bibliography

1966

  • Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 88.

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 301, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q46627670

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