Amy Taylor Dickson (Mrs. John Dickson)
c. 1835
Artist, American, 1796 - 1865
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 76.8 x 63.8 cm (30 1/4 x 25 1/8 in.)
framed: 91.4 x 79.4 x 5.7 cm (36 x 31 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1947.17.77
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The sitter's son, Levi Dickson [1805-1872], Philadelphia. Susan Allen Dickson, Philadelphia.[1] the artist's son, Garrett Cross Neagle, Philadelphia; Gilbert Sunderland Parker, Philadelphia; Mrs. Anna P. Bly; (William Macbeth, New York); Franklin Bulkeley Smith [1864-1918], Worcester, Massachusetts; (his estate sale, American Art Association, 22-23 April 1920, no. 149); purchased by C. Deardon, probably for 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.
[1] The provenance published in the NGA systematic catalogue reads: "The sitter's son, Levi Dickson, Jr. [d. 1883], Philadelphia; his sister, Susan Allen Dickson, Philadelphia." Too late for publication, it was determined that this information was not quite accurate. There were several Levi Dicksons in the family, and the sitter's son was not the Levi who died in 1883. Susan Allen Dickson was not the sitter's daughter; however she lent the painting to an exhibition in 1887/1888, and was a family member, although her relationship to the sitter and the sitter's son has not yet been clarified. This version of the provenance provides only that information which is confirmed. (See notes on the family genealogy in NGA curatorial files.)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1887
Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1887-1888, no. 126.
1921
Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 4.
1925
Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925, no. 31.
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.
Bibliography
1925
Fielding, Mantle. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925: no. 31, 50.
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.
1959
Patrick, Ransom R. "The Early Life of John Neagle, Philadelphia Portrait Painter." Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1959: 93-94.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 84, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 200, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 239, 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: 24-27, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20185801