Henry Eichholtz Leman

c. 1835

Jacob Eichholtz

Artist, American, 1776 - 1842

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 76.5 x 64.2 cm (30 1/8 x 25 1/4 in.)
    framed: 97.8 x 85.4 x 7.6 cm (38 1/2 x 33 5/8 x 3 in.)

  • Accession

    1954.1.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

By descent in the family to Adelia Leman [1857-1947], Lancaster, daughter of the subject; sold 20 March 1917 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] 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.
[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

1912

  • Loan Exhibition of Historical and Contemporary Portraits Illustrating the Evolution of Portraiture in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania..., Lancaster, 1912, no. 156.

1922

  • Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, March 1922, no. 7.

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.

1959

  • Jacob Eichholtz, Historical Society of York County, York, Pennsylvania, 1959, no. 38 (organized by Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg).

2003

  • The Worlds of Jacob Eichholtz, Portrait Painter of the Early Republic, shown at one of three simultaneous venues: The Heritage Center of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 2003, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1913

  • Hensel, William U. "Jacob Eichholtz, Painter." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 37 (1913): 69, as Henry E. Leman.

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.

1960

  • Milley, John Calvin. "Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842." Master's thesis, University of Delaware, 1960: 11, 137-138.

1969

  • Beal, Rebecca J. Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842. Philadelphia, 1969: 132, no. 448.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 56, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 154, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 174, 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: 216-218, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20185804

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