Henry Clay, 1842

Not on View

Medium

watercolor on ivory

Dimensions

support: 13.02 × 10.64 cm (5 1/8 × 4 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

Accession Number

2015.19.2409

Artists / Makers

Washington Blanchard (artist) American, 1808 - 1855

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in watercolor: Blanchard / 1842; backing verso in black ink by unknown hand: Henry Clay / Painted in 1842 by / Blanchard, and for / years in the possession / of the late Joseph / Gales Esqr. by whom / it was esteemed the / best likeness ever / made of the original.

Provenance

Joseph Gales, Jr., Washington, DC; Mrs. Joseph (Sarah J. M. Lee) Gales, Washington, DC, 1860; William Wilson Corcoran, Washington, DC, 1879; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1879; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran, William Wilson

Exhibition History

1981: Portrait of a Dream, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981

Bibliography

1897: Hart, Charles Henry. "Life Portraits of Henry Clay." McClure's Magazine (September 1897): p. 939.

1921: Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature. New York: F. F. Sherman, 1921, p. 14, no. 4.

1966: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters Born Before 1850. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1966, p. 70.