Robert Lea, 1797

Not on View

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 25.4 × 21.27 cm (10 × 8 3/8 in.)

framed: 38.1 × 34.61 × 5.72 cm (15 × 13 5/8 × 2 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Anonymous gift)

Accession Number

2014.136.138

Artists / Makers

Adolph-Ulrich Wertmüller (painter) Swedish, 1751 - 1811

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Inscription

center right: A.W.s.p.t. / 1795

Provenance

The sitter's mother, Sarah Shippen Lea [1756-1831, Mrs. Thomas Lea]; by descent in her family; gift September 1979 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Lea, Sarah Shippen

Exhibition History

1925: Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures and Silver Assembled by the Washington Loan Exhibition Committee, National Gallery of Art (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, 1925-1926, no. 93, repro., as Portrait of Master Robert Shippen Lea.

1959: Loan to display with permanent collection, National Society of Colonial Dames, Headquarters of the Pennsylvania Society, Philadelphia, by 1959-1979.

1976: Philadelphia, Three Centuries of American Art: Bicentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976, no. 136, repro.

1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983, unpublished checklist.

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

1981: Gustafson, Eleanor H. "Museum accessions." Antiques (November 1981): 1092.

2011: Miles, Ellen G. "Gilbert Stuart, Sarah Shippen Lea (Mrs. Thomas Lea)." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 56-57, 254-255, repro.