George Southward (?)

c. 1841

Joseph Alexander Ames

Painter, American, 1816 - 1872

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on wood

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 76.2 x 61.7 cm (30 x 24 5/16 in.)
    framed: 102.9 x 88.6 x 4.8 cm (40 1/2 x 34 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.21

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ehrich Galleries, New York), by 1918.[1] (sale, Stan V. Henkels, Philadelphia, 5 February 1920, no. 32); Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection on 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.
[1] The introduction to the Ehrich Galleries exhibition catalogue relates that the works shown "have at various times" been in the possession of the gallery.
[2] The name of the auction house and the date of the purchase are recorded in an copy of Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke (Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928), annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library). An annotated copy of the 1920 sale catalogue, at the Frick Art Reference Library, indicates that "Harris" -- probably Charles X. Harris, a painter and associate of Clarke -- acted as the purchasing agent.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1918

  • One Hundred Early American Paintings, Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1918, p. 15.

1921

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, December 1921, no. 15, as George Southward by Joseph A. Ames.

1928

  • Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue, as George Southward by Joseph A. Ames.

Bibliography

1921

  • Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature. New York: F. F. Sherman, 1921, p. 145.

1928

  • Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered, as George Southward by Joseph A. Ames.

1952

  • Rutledge and Lane 1952, 113.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 10, repro., as George Southward by Joseph Alexander Ames.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 20, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 21 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: 10-13, repro.

Inscriptions

on reverse: George Southard / Artist. pupil of Josep [sic] Ames / Joseph Ames. Pinxt

Wikidata ID

Q20186910

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