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Gilbert Stuart

Catherine Yates Pollock (Mrs. George Pollock), 1793/1794

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 91.6 x 71.8 cm (36 1/16 x 28 1/4 in.)

framed: 122.6 x 105.4 x 8.9 cm (48 1/4 x 41 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1942.8.19

Artists / Makers

Gilbert Stuart (painter) American, 1755 - 1828

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Provenance

The sitter's son, Carlile Pollock [1791-1845], New Orleans; his daughter, Marie Louise Pollock Chiapella [1828-1902]; possibly to her son, Henry Chiapella [1849-c. 1908]; his niece, Louise Chiapella Formento, New Orleans; sold between 1915 and 1917 to Isaac Monroe Cline [1861-1955], New Orleans;[1] purchased 16 January 1918 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 Education and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] The provenance for this painting is the same as for Stuart's Yates portraits [NGA 1940.1.4, 1940.1.5, and 1942.8.29], except for the date of Cline's purchase. Cline bought this portrait and that of Mrs. George Pollock (1942.8.19) after 19 April 1915, when he wrote to Charles Henry Hart in Philadelphia that he only owned three portraits of members of the Yates/Pollock families. He owned them by 12 December 1917, when he wrote New York dealer Robert Macbeth that he owned the five Gilbert Stuart portraits of members of the Pollock and Yates families that were mentioned by Dunlap (General Correspondence, MAcbeth Gallery Papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.).

[2] The name of the seller and the date of purchase are recorded in a copy of Portraits by Early American Painters of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, 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). Clarke sent Clarence J. Dearden of Art House, Inc., to New Orleans to negotiate the purchase of the portraits; Dearden confirmed the purchase in a telegram to Clarke, 16 January 1918 (NGA curatorial file for 1940.1.4, Mrs. Richard Yates).

Associated Names

Chiapella, Henry
Chiapella, Marie Louise Pollock
Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Cline, Isaac Monroe
Formento, Louise Chiapella
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Pollock, Carlile

Exhibition History

1922: Portraits Painted in the United States by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, February 1922, no. 4.

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.

1943: American Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1943.

1944: Gilbert Stuart: Portraits Lent by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1944-1945, no. 10

1947: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1947.

1947: Early American Portraits and Silver [Golden Jubilee of the Colonial Dames of America], J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 1947, no cat.

1948: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1948.

1949: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1949.

1950: The Face of American History, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, 1950, no. 12.

1951: American Portraits from the National Gallery of Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1951, no. 12 (organized by the Atlanta Art Association).

1951: [Opening exhibition], Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1951.

1952: [Opening exhibition], Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1952, no. cat.

1952: [Opening exhibition of new art gallery], Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1952-1953, no cat.

1952: Opening Exhibition of The George Thomas Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga Art Association, Tennessee, 1952, unnumbered.

1970: Two Centuries of American Portraits, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington; Paducah Art Gallery; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 1970, unnumbered

1983: Extended loan for use by Ambassador David Abshire, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1983-1987.

1987: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Alton J. Keel, Jr., Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1987-1989.

1989: Extended loan for use by Ambassador William H. Taft IV, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1989-1992.

1992: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1992-1993.

1993: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Robert E. Hunter, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1993-1997.

1997: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Alexander R. Vershbow, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1997-2001.

2001: Extended loan for use by Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 2001-2005.

2005: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Victoria Nuland, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 2005-2008.

2008: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Kurt Volker, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 2008-2009.

2009: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Ivo Daalder, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 2009-2012.

Bibliography

1867: Tuckerman 1867, 109

1869: Dunlap, William. A History of the Rise and Progress of The Arts of Design in the United States. 2 vols. Reprinted in 3. New York, 1969 (1834): 1:196.

1926: Park 1926, 606, no. 649, repro.

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.

1933: Sawitsky, William. "Some Unrecorded Portraits by Gilbert Stuart." Art in America 21, no. 3 (June 1933): 91-92.

1964: Mount 1964, 169, 373

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 104, repro., as Mrs. George Pollock.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 233, repro., as Mrs. George Pollock.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 347, repro., as Mrs. George Pollock.

1995: Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 186-188, color repro. 187.