Self-Portrait, 1901

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 63.5 × 51.44 cm (25 × 20 1/4 in.)

framed: 74.3 × 61.6 × 5.08 cm (29 1/4 × 24 1/4 × 2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Virginia Cummings Devine)

Accession Number

2016.23.15

Artists / Makers

John George Brown (painter) American, born England, 1831 - 1913

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Inscription

lower right: J.G. Brown, NA / 1901

Provenance

By descent in the artist's family to his great-granddaughter, Virginia Cummings Devine [1919-2004, Mrs. John E. Devine], Washington;[1] gift 7 December 2000 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The painting is one of three known to have been painted by Brown for each of his three daughters. Mrs. Devine's father was the artist's grandson.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Devine, Virginia Cummings

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 290, repro.