Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 68.1 x 53.5 cm (26 13/16 x 21 1/16 in.)
framed: 85.4 x 72.4 x 4.8 cm (33 5/8 x 28 1/2 x 1 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1947.17.72
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York; purchased 22 March 1921 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
1921
Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, December 1921, no. 17, as Alexander Anderson by Eliab Metcalfe.
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 Alexander Anderson by Eliab Metcalfe.
1972
Loan for display with permanent collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 1972-1974.
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 Alexander Anderson.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 82, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 198, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 235, 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: 275-277, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20183638