Portrait of a Lady
c. 1825/1830
Painter, 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 x 63 cm (29 15/16 x 24 13/16 in.)
framed: 91.1 x 78.1 x 5.7 cm (35 7/8 x 30 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1947.17.82
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(C. K. Johnson, Greenwich, Connecticut); purchased 1 May 1923 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
1924
Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, February 1924, no. 3, as Miss Ryan by John Neagle.
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 Miss Ryan by John Neagle.
1987
Extended loan for use by Ambassadors Charles A. Gillespie and Thomas E. McNamara, U.S. Embassy residence, Bogotà, Colombia, 1987-1991.
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 Miss Ryan by John Neagle.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 150, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 296, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 425, 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: 37-39, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20185293