Thomas Jefferson
1848/1879
Painter, American, 1813 - 1894
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 76.2 × 63.5 cm (30 × 25 in.)
framed: 100.33 × 87 cm (39 1/2 × 34 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2016.23.10
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.
Associated Names
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Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 15 April - 30 September 1966, unpublished checklist.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