Captain Warren Delano
c. 1852
Artist, American, 1812 - 1868
Charles Loring Elliott
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 91.9 x 72.1 cm (36 3/16 x 28 3/8 in.)
framed: 116.8 x 98.7 x 7.6 cm (46 x 38 7/8 x 3 in.) -
Accession Number
1942.10.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Frederic A. Delano [1811-1857], son of the sitter, New York;[1] by descent in the Delano family, Fairhaven, Massachusetts, to the grandson of the sitter, Frederic A. Delano [1863-1953], Washington, D.C.;[2] gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Frederic A. Delano, the owner of the portrait when it was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1852, is listed in the New York City directory for 1851-1852 as a merchant living with his brother Warren Delano, Jr., at 39 Lafayette Place. Frederic and Warren were two of the sitter's nine children.
[2] Letter of 18 March 1948 (in NGA curatorial files) from the donor, Frederic A. Delano, the son of Warren Delano, Jr., gives provenance information. Mr. Delano was acting for his father's estate when the gift was made to the NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1852
Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1852, no. 449, as Portrait of a Gentleman.
Bibliography
1852
"Fine Arts." Home Journal 7 (8 May 1852): 2.
"Exhibition of the National Academy of Design." Knickerbocker 39 (June 1852): 564.
"Fine Arts: The National Academy of Design." The Albion 2 (24 April/8 May 1852): 226.
1867
Tuckerman 1867, 302.
1942
Richardson, Edgar P. "Captain Warren Delano by Charles Loring Elliot." The Art Quarterly 5 (Autumn 1942): 349-351, repro. 350.
1944
Richardson, Edgar P. American Romantic Painting. New York, 1944: 15, 33, no. 130, repro.
1955
Schmidt, Philip F. "Charles Loring Elliott (1812-1868): American Portrait Painter." M.A. thesis, University of Minnesota, 1955: 39, 43, fig. 19.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 58, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 156, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 175, repro.
1996
Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 225-227, color repro.
Inscriptions
center left: C.L.E.
Wikidata ID
Q20188017