Portrait of a Gentleman
c. 1750/1765 (or imitative of that period)
Painter
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 75.5 x 63 cm (29 3/4 x 24 13/16 in.)
framed: 82.9 x 70.8 x 3.5 cm (32 5/8 x 27 7/8 x 1 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1947.17.43
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 13 August 1930 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York, as a portait of Jonathan Sewell by Edward Truman;[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 Chambers Russell, a friend of the supposed sitter, supplied by the dealer, de Forest, cannot be verified. See John Hill Morgan, undated note, and James Lane and Anna Rutledge, report on the Clarke collection, the latter quoted by William P. Campbell, memorandum, 24 January 1966, both in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 160, repro., as Portrait of a Man by American (?).
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 309, as Portrait of a Man by Unknown [Formerly Considered American].
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 411, repro., as Portrait of a Man 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: 298-300, repro. 299.
Inscriptions
falsely signed, lower right: Edward Truman
Wikidata ID
Q20178023