The Belated Kid, 1857

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 137.16 × 97.79 cm (54 × 38 1/2 in.)

framed: 171.77 × 132.4 × 10.48 cm (67 5/8 × 52 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through the gifts of William Wilson Corcoran)

Accession Number

2015.19.172

Artists / Makers

William Morris Hunt (painter) American, 1824 - 1879

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Inscription

lower left: Wm M Hunt 1857; upper left reverse, transcribed from original canvas onto the relining: "The Belated Kid" / Painted by Wm M. Hunt at -Newport in 1857-

Provenance

Sidney Brooks [1799-1878], Medford, Massachusetts; by inheritance to his nephew, Peter Chadron Brooks, III [1831-1920], West Medford, Massachusetts, by 1879;[1] by inheritance to his daughter, Eleanor Brooks Saltonstall [1867-1961, Mrs. Richard Middlecott Saltonstall], Brookline, Massachusetts, by 1922;[2] by inheritance to her sons, Richard Saltonstall [1897-1982] and Leverett Saltonstall [1892-1979]; gift 1962 in their mother's name to Bradford Junior College, Massachusetts;[3] (sale, Robert W. Skinner, Inc., Bolton, Massachusetts, 20 November 1980); (Jordan Volpe Gallery, New York); purchased 11 February 1981 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] He lent the painting to an 1879 exhibition of works by Hunt at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

[2] She lent the painting to a 1924 memorial exhibition of works by Hunt at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

[3] According to American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. 1, Boston, 1969: no. 593. See also the letter of 24 January 1981 from Vance Jordan of Jordan Volpe Gallery to Edward J. Nygren of the Corcoran, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Bradford Junior College (1932-1971)
Brooks, Peter Chadron III
Brooks, Sidney
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Jordan Volpe Gallery
Robert W. Skinner, Inc.
Saltonstall, Eleanor Brooks
Saltonstall, Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard

Exhibition History

1879: Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 11 November - 31 January 1880, no. 33.

1880: Loan Collection of Paintings in the West and East Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April-October 1880, no. 34.

1894: William Morris Hunt, St. Botolph Club, Boston, April 1894, no. 2.

1924: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 8-24 March 1924, no. 40.

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

2005: Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 27 (shown only in Houston, Southampton, and Charlotte).

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

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

1984: Corcoran Gallery of Art. American Painting: The Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, 1984: 20, repro. 21.

2000: Cash, Sarah, with Terrie Sultan. American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. New York, 2000: 73, repro.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 302, repro.