Elisha Doane

c. 1783

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 101.7 x 84.2 cm (40 1/16 x 33 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.1.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The sitter's son, James Cutler Doane [1788-1878], Cohasset, MA;[1] his granddaughter, Harriet Doane [b. 1866], Southboro, MA; sold around 1920 to (Dwight Prouty, Boston);[2] (Brooks Reed);[3] (Israel Sack, New York);[4] (James P. Labey, New York).[5] (sale, 16 February 1929, James P. Silo, New York, no. 333); Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[6] gift 1943 to NGA.
[1] For his dates see Alfred Alder Doane, The Doane Family: Deacon John Doane, of Plymouth; Doctor John Done, of Maryland; and their Descendants, Boston, 1902, 422-423.
[2] Letter from Harriet Doane to James W. Lane, 6 September 1948 (NGA curatorial file). John Howland described Prouty as a collector; letter, 18 September 1940, Frick Art Reference Library.
[3] Letter from John Howland, dated 17 August 1947, to Chester Dale (NGA curatorial file).
[4] This information is found on an undated note possibly made when the painting was in the Chester Dale collection (NGA curatorial file).
[5] National Gallery of Art, Paintings other Than French in the Chester Dale Collection, Washington, 1965, 26. Labey was described as a dealer in his obituary in The New York Times, 27 October 1946, 62.
[6] Two labels on the stretcher give the address of Silo's auction house as 40 East 45th Street, New York, and the lot number as 2792-2.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1937

  • An Exhibition of American Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Union League Club, New York, 1937, no. 5, as by Samuel King.

1943

  • American Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1943.

1947

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1947.

1953

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.

1955

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

1956

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956.

1965

  • The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1947

  • "Two Interesting Portraits." Antiques 51 (May 1947): 341-342, repro., as Attributed to Samuel King.

1965

  • Paintings other than French in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 26, repro., as Attributed to Samuel King.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 132, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 273, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 398, repro.

1995

  • Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 362-365, repro. 363.

Wikidata ID

Q20179181

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