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Samuel Lovett Waldo

Robert G. L. De Peyster, 1828

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Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 84 x 64 cm (33 1/16 x 25 3/16 in.)

framed: 104.1 x 86.4 x 7.6 cm (41 x 34 x 3 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1942.8.38

Artists / Makers

Samuel Lovett Waldo (artist) American, 1783 - 1861

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Inscription

lower right on letter: WALDO New York July 1828 / Robt. G. L. Depeyster

Provenance

Mrs. V. H. Fields, New York; (Ehrich Galleries, New York); purchased 2 February 1924 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; 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.

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Ehrich Galleries
Fields, V.H., Mrs.
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.

Exhibition History

1924: Exhibition of Portraits of Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, February 1924, no. 6.

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 R. G. Livingston De Peyster.

1940: Survey of American Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1940, unnumbered.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

1930: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. Early American Portraiture. New York, 1930: 18.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 118, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 253, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 394, no. 562, color repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 372, 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: 224-226, color repro.