Provenance

Jacob J. Lansing [1753-c. 1794], Albany, or his brother, Rev. Nicholas Lansing [1748 or 1749-1835];[1] by descent through the Dickinson family; private collection; gift to the Tappan Reformed Church, Rockland County, New York;[2] sold 1960 to (Old Print Shop, New York); sold 8 February 1966 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The painting has been thought to be either of Jacob Lansing, his wife, Jannetje Heyer, and one of their daughters, or of his brother, the Rev. Nicholas Lansing, his wife, Dorcas Sarah Dickinson, and an unidentified girl; see Kathe Chipman and Sally Dewey, "'Great Doors Swing on Small Hinges'," The Drummer Boy, Tappantown Historical Society (Winter 1983): 1-13. Rev. Lansing was a minister at the Tappan Reformed Church from 1784 to 1835, which is apparently why the unidentifed donor wanted the church to have the painting.
[2] Chipman and Dewey tell the story of the donation of the painting to the church, and its subsequent sale to the New York dealer.

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Wikidata ID

Q46625806