James, 5th Duke of Hamilton
1737/1740
Painter, Scottish, c. 1695 - 1745
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 75.9 x 63.5 cm (29 7/8 x 25 in.)
framed: 92.1 x 79.7 x 3.8 cm (36 1/4 x 31 3/8 x 1 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1947.17.29
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Painted for James, 5th Duke of Hamilton (1702/3-1742/3); by descent to Alfred, 13th Duke of Hamilton;[1] (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6-7 November 1919, 1st day, no. 7, as by Mather Brown); bought by (Tooth Bros.), London; from whom it was purchased 4 February 1920 by (G. Stanley Sedgwick) for Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] sold by Clarke's executors to (M. Knoedler & Co.), New York, from whom it was purchased 29 January 1936, as part of the Clarke collection, by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift to NGA, 1947.
[1] Additional Dukes of Hamilton listed in Ownership Detail below are per Burke's Peerage Ltd., Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 105th ed. (London, 1970), 1217-18. [2] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).
Associated Names
- Hamilton, James, 5th Duke of
- Hamilton, James, 6th Duke of
- Hamilton, James George, 7th Duke of
- Hamilton, Douglas, 8th Duke of
- Hamilton, Archibald, 9th Duke of
- Hamilton, Alexander, 10th Duke of
- Hamilton, William Alexander Anthony Archibald, 11th Duke of
- Hamilton, William Alexander Louis Stephen, 12th Duke of
- Hamilton, Alfred Douglas, 13th Duke of
- Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
- Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd.
- G.S. Sedgwick
- Clarke, Thomas Benedict
- M. Knoedler & Company
- The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust
Exhibition History
1922
Portraits Painted in Europe by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, January 1922, no. 11, as Alexander Hamilton [Tenth Duke of Hamilton, Scotland] by Mather Brown.
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 Alexander Hamilton by Mather Brown.
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 18, repro., as Attributed to Mather Brown.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 30, repro.
1992
Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 53-56, repro. 55.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 436.
Inscriptions
in a later hand, on reverse in ink: Dundas; and: Mat Brown.
Wikidata ID
Q20177896