Portrait of a Lady

c. 1715/1730, perhaps close to 1725

Maria Verelst

Painter, Dutch, 1680 - 1744

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.)
    framed: 105.4 x 85.4 x 7.6 cm (41 1/2 x 33 5/8 x 3 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.95

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 2 July 1924 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York, as a portrait of Susannah de Lancey, Lady Warren, by John Smibert;[1] sold by Clarke's executors to (M. Knoedler & Co.), New York, from whom it was purchased 29 January 1936, as part of the Clarke collection, by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust; gift to NGA, 1947.
[1] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library). The provenance from James de Lancey of New York, brother of the supposed sitter, supplied by the dealer de Forest, has been described as unsatisfactory and cannot be verified. Henry Wilder Foote, John Smibert (Cambridge, Mass., 1950), 246.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1925

  • A Loan Exhibition of the Earliest Known Portraits of Americans Painted in This Country by Painters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, The Century Association, New York, 1925, no. 4, as Susannah DeLancey Warren by John Smibert.

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 Susannah De Lancey Warren by John Smibert.

Bibliography

1932

  • Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. Early American Painting. New York and London, 1932: 20.

1950

  • Foote, Henry Wilder. John Smibert. Cambridge, Mass., 1950: 246.

1970

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

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 289, repro., as by Unknown American.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 318-320, repro. 319.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 436.

Inscriptions

falsely signed and dated, lower left on ledge: Jn.Smibert.fecit.1746

Wikidata ID

Q20177773

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