Provenance
The sitter's sister, Ann Biddle Hopkinson [Mrs. Francis Hopkinson, 1800-1863], Bordentown, New Jersey; her daughter and the sitter's niece, Emily Hopkinson Scovel [1839-1883]; her daughter, Florence Scovel Shinn [b. 1871], New York; purchased 4 November 1918 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Company, New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1922
- Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, March 1922, no. 12, as by Thomas Sully.
- 1922
- Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1922, no. 125.
- 1926
- A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1926, no. 6, as by Thomas Sully.
- 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 by Thomas Sully.
- 1944
- John Trumbull and his Contemporaries, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, 1944, no. 123.
- 1955
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
- 1956
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956.
- 1966
- Loan for display with permanent collection, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., 1966-1987.
- 1988
- Extended loan for use by Blair House, Washington, D.C., 1988-1995.
Bibliography
- 1909
- Hart 1909, no. 141, 30.
- 1921
- Biddle, Edward, and Mantle Fielding. The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Philadelphia, 1921: no. 147, 101.
- 1922
- Catalogue ofthe Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1922: no. 125, 89.
- 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, as by Thomas Sully.
- 1949
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 144, repro.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 114, repro.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 245, repro.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 364, repro.
- 1998
- Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 192-195, color repro.
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