Phoebe Cassidy Freeman (Mrs. Clarkson Freeman)

c. 1830

Jacob Eichholtz

Artist, American, 1776 - 1842

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 68.9 x 56.6 cm (27 1/8 x 22 5/16 in.)
    framed: 82.2 x 69.5 x 7.6 cm (32 3/8 x 27 3/8 x 3 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.45

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably Robert Lindsay Eichholtz [1833-1912], Lancaster; his stepdaughter, Susan L. Ziegler; sold December 1920 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.
[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).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1921

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 11, as Mrs. Phoebe Freeman.

1928

  • A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1928, no. 10.

  • 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 Mrs. Phoebe Freeman.

1959

  • Jacob Eichholtz, Historical Society of York County, York, Pennsylvania, 1959, no. 36 (organized by Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg).

1969

  • Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842, Pennsylvania Painter, A Retrospective Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadalphia, 1969, no. 19, pl. 6.

2003

  • The Worlds of Jacob Eichholtz, Portrait Painter of the Early Republic, shown at one of three simultaneous venues: The Heritage Center of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 2003, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

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 Mrs. Pheobe Freeman.

  • Sherman, Frederick Fairchild. "Portraits and Miniatures by Copley, Dunlap, Eichholtz, and Robert Street." Art in America 16 (April 1928): 126.

1932

  • Sherman 1932, 106.

1958

  • Beal, Rebecca J. "Further Review of the Work of Jacob Eichholtz." Dauphin County Historical Review 6 (December 1958): 28.

1960

  • Milley, John Calvin. "Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842." Master's thesis, University of Delaware, 1960: no. 292, 91.

1969

  • Beal, Rebecca J. Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842. Philadelphia, 1969: no. 292, 91.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 56, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 153, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 174, 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: 216, color repro. 215.

Wikidata ID

Q20185711

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