Samuel McKenney
1837
Painter, American, 1793 - 1849
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 91.44 × 71.12 cm (36 × 28 in.)
framed: 110.17 × 90.17 × 9.53 cm (43 3/8 × 35 1/2 × 3 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.169
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The sitter, Samuel McKenney [b. 1791], Washington; by descent to his great-great-granddaughter, Ann MacCarteney Coulthurst, Three Lakes, Wisconsin; gift 1980 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
George Cooke, 1793-1849, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; Montgomery Museum of Art; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston; Bayly Museum of Art at The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2 February 1991 - 15 March 1992, no. 9, repro.
Bibliography
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 293, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: G.C. / 1837
Wikidata ID
Q46627233