James Lloyd

after 1808

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 76.5 x 64 cm (30 1/8 x 25 3/16 in.)
    framed: 87.6 x 87.6 x 8.3 cm (34 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.107

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The sitter's granddaughter, Augusta Elizabeth Borland Greene [Mrs. William Parkinson Greene, 1795-1861], Norwich, Connecticut; her husband, William Parkinson Greene [1795-1864], Norwich, Connecticut; their son, Gardiner Greene [1822-1895], Norwich, Connecticut; his son, Gardiner Greene [1851-1925], Norwich, Connecticut;[1] sold to (André E. Rueff, New York) by 2 May 1921, when it was purchased by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection on 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.
[1] Greene provided this provenance to André E. Rueff, letter of 1 May 1921 (NGA curatorial file). On the Lloyds and the Greenes see Dorothy C. Barck, ed., Papers of the Lloyd Family of the Manor of Queen's Village, Lloyd's Neck, Long Island, New York, 1654-1826, 2 vols., New York, 1927, 2:895-896, 900; George Sears Greene, The Greenes of Rhode Island, New York, 1903, 429-430, 578, 687; and The New York Times, 11 February 1925, 21 (obituary for Gardiner Greene).
[2] The name of the seller and the date of purchase are recorded in a copy of Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clark, Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library). The receipt signed by A.E. Rueff is dated 3 May 1921 (NGA curatorial file).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1922

  • Portraits Painted in the United States by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, February 1922, no. 8, as by Gilbert Stuart.

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 by Gilbert Stuart.

1967

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1967-1980.

1985

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary George P. Shultz, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1985-1989.

1991

  • Extended loan for use by Justice David Souter, The Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1991-2009.

Bibliography

1879

  • Mason, George C. The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart. New York, 1879: 216.

1880

  • "Portraits Painted by Stuart...taken from Mason's Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart." In Exhibition of Portraits Painted by Gilbert Stuart. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1880: 46, no. 373.

1926

  • Park 1926, 484, note.

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 by Gilbert Stuart.

  • Barker, Virgil. "Portraiture in America Before 1876." The Arts 13, no. 5 (May 1928): 276-277.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 110, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 239, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 359, repro.

1995

  • Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 289-291, repro. 290.

Wikidata ID

Q20182445

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