Captain Robert Calder

c. 1787/1790

Lemuel Francis Abbott

Artist, British, c. 1755/1761 - 1802

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 92.1 x 71.8 cm (36 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.)
    framed: 109.9 x 89.5 x 7 cm (43 1/4 x 35 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1954.1.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Archibald Ramsden, Regent's Park, London; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1-2 February 1917, 2nd day, no. 239, as by Gilbert Stuart); bought by (Frank T. Sabin), London; from whom it was purchased 1920 by (G.S. Sedgwick) for Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[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, Pittsburgh; gift to NGA, 1954.
[1] Clarke's purchase from the Sabin sale 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

1922

  • Portraits Painted in Europe by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, January 1922, no. 15, as Lieutenant Robert Calder 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 Lieutenant Robert Calder by Gilbert Stuart.

Bibliography

1926

  • Park, Lawrence. Gilbert Stuart. 4 vols. New York, 1926: 1:no. 135; 2:85, repro.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 164, repro.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 10, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 309.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 17, repro.

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: 3-4, repro. 5.

Wikidata ID

Q20179438

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