Samuel Griffin
c. 1809
Artist, American, 1766 - 1839
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 75.6 x 63.3 cm (29 3/4 x 24 15/16 in.)
framed: 83.5 x 71.1 x 5.3 cm (32 7/8 x 28 x 2 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1953.5.80
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from New York State. General Schuyler Hamilton [1822-1903], New York City; his grandson, Schuyler Hamilton, city unknown, by whom sold to (Harry Stone Gallery, New York), by 1941;[1] sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
[1] The information about the Hamiltons originated with Stone, who relayed it to Colonial Williamsburg when he offered the portrait there in 1941 (photocopy of letter from Stone to James L. Cogar, curator, Colonial Williamsburg, 13 March 1941, in NGA curatorial files; courtesy of Richard Miller, associate curator, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia). Stone apparently did not pass the information along to the Garbisches when they purchased the painting. General Schuyler Hamilton's grandfather was Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), George Washington's secretary of the treasury from 1789-1795, while Griffin was serving in Congress.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1954
American Primitive Paintings from the Colleciton of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 34.
1955
American Primitive Pantings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
1978
The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.
1980
Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Lisbon, Portugal, 1980-1982.
1989
The First Federal Congress 1789-1791, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 1989: 268, repro.
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 50, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 146, repro.
1989
The First Federal Congress 1789-1791. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 1989: 268, repro.
1992
Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 92-95, color repro. 93.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 161, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20182591