Portrait of a Lady, probably c. 1820

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 62.7 x 52 cm (24 11/16 x 20 1/2 in.)

framed: 84.5 x 72.7 cm (33 1/4 x 28 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1942.8.37

Artists / Makers

Unknown 19th Century (artist)

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Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 2 August 1921 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 1942 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

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
de Forest, Rose M.

Exhibition History

1921: Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 6, as Rebecca Sanford Barlow by Samuel L. Waldo.

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 Rebecca Sanford Barlow by Samuel L. Waldo.

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

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: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1950.

1951: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951.

1953: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.

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.

Bibliography

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 Rebecca Sanford Barlow by Samuel L. Waldo.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 170, repro., as by European of Unknown Nationality.

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: 414, repro.