Portrait of a Lady

c. 1855/1860

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (oval): 76.2 x 63.8 cm (30 x 25 1/8 in.)
    framed: 103.2 x 90.5 x 11.4 cm (40 5/8 x 35 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.58

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York); purchased 12 April 1922 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

1923

  • Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, 1923, no. 8, as Clara Barton by Henry Inman.

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 Clara Barton by Henry Inman.

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 Clara Barton by Henry Inman.

1933

  • Bolton, Theodore. "Henry Inman, Portrait Painter." Creative Art 12, no. 2 (February 1933): 117-123.

1940

  • Bolton, Theodore. "A Catalogue of Paintings by Henry Inman." Supplement to The Art Quarterly 3 (1940): 417.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 144, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 288, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 418, 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: 306-309, color repro.

Inscriptions

falsely signed and dated, center right: Henry Inman / 1844

Wikidata ID

Q20188321

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