Daniel Webster
c. 1850
Painter, American, 1807 - 1889
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 91.7 x 73.8 cm (36 1/8 x 29 1/16 in.)
framed: 120 x 102.2 x 10.2 cm (47 1/4 x 40 1/4 x 4 in.) -
Accession
1954.1.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Charles A. Gould [d. 1926], Buffalo; his estate; (sale, American Art Association and Anderson Galleries, New York, 30-31 October 1929, no. 79);[1] Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold as part of the Thomas B. Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1954 to NGA.
[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).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1954
Extended loan for use at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 1954-1980.
1982
Extended loan for use by Ambassador Arthur Hartmann, U.S. Embassy, Moscow, U.S.S.R., 1982-1987.
1989
Extended loan for use by Ambassador Maynard Glitman, U.S. Embassy residence, Brussels, Belgium, 1989-1991.
Bibliography
1938
O'Connor, John. "Reviewing a Forgotten Artist: A Sketch of James Reid Lambdin--the Pittsburgh Painter of American Statesmen." Carnegie Magazine 12 (1938): 115-118, repro. 118.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 78, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 192, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 225, repro.
1996
Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 404-406, repro.
Inscriptions
falsely signed and dated, lower left: JRL / 1848
Wikidata ID
Q20187958