Portrait of a Man

c. 1830

American 19th Century

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 76.2 x 61.3 cm (30 x 24 1/8 in.)
    framed: 91.1 x 75.9 x 5.1 cm (35 7/8 x 29 7/8 x 2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.17.51

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York); purchased 24 March 1926 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; 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.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1926

  • A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1926, no. 19, as Mahlon Dickerson by Robert Fulton.

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 Mahlon Dickerson by Robert Fulton.

1970

  • Two Centuries of American Portraits, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington; Paducah Art Gallery, Kentucky; J. B. Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, 1970, no cat.

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 Mahlon Dickerson by Robert Fulton.

1929

  • Lee, Cuthbert. Early American Portrait Painters. New Haven, 1929: 310.

1930

  • Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. Early American Portraiture. New York, 1930: 96.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 146, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 290, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 420, repro.

1998

  • Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 290-292, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20185721

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