James, 5th Duke of Hamilton

1737/1740

Jeremiah Davison

Painter, Scottish, c. 1695 - 1745

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • 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

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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

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


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