Portrait of a Lady

c. 1700/1750

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 76 x 64 cm (29 15/16 x 25 3/16 in.)
    framed: 93.4 x 77.8 x 5.9 cm (36 3/4 x 30 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.39

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 8 April 1922 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York, as a portrait of Ann Sinclair Crommelin by Evert Duyckinck III;[1] 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] 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). The provenance from Maria Crommelin Ver Planck, daughter of the supposed sitter (as well as the identification of the sitter as Ann Sinclair, Mrs. Charles Crommelin [1691-1743]), supplied by the dealer, de Forest, cannot be verified. See James Lane and Anna Rutledge, report on the Clarke collection, 1952, quoted by William P. Campbell, memorandum, 28 June 1965, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1923

  • Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, 1923, no. 2, as Ann Sinclair Crommelin by Evert Duyckinck 3rd.

1925

  • A Loan Exhibition of the Earliest Known Portraits of Americans Painted in This Country by Painters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, The Century Association, New York, 1925, no. 7, as Ann Sinclair Crommelin by Evert Duyckinck, 3rd.

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 Ann Sinclair Crommelin by Evert Duyckinck,3rd.

Bibliography

1932

  • Sherman, Frederick Fairchild. Early American Painting. New York and London, 1932: 12.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 170, repro., as by European of Unknown Nationality.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 307, as by Unknown [Formerly Considered American].

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 410, repro., as by Unknown Nationality 18th Century.

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: 294-295, repro. 294.

Inscriptions

falsely inscribed, on label pasted onto stretcher in ink: Ann Sinclair Crommelin Aet 34 / Evert Duyckinck Pinx. / G. Ver Planck

Wikidata ID

Q20177716

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