Charles Loring Elliott, c. 1865

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 68.9 x 56.2 cm (27 1/8 x 22 1/8 in.)

framed: 91.8 x 79.1 x 7.1 cm (36 1/8 x 31 1/8 x 2 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.9

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (painter)

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Provenance

(Cantrell); purchased 14 December 1921 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.

Associated Names

Cantrell
Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.

Exhibition History

1922: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, March 1922, no. 6, as by William Sidney Mount.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue.

1951: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951.

1953: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.

1967: Loan for display with permanent collection, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1967-1968, 1969-1980.

Bibliography

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 82, repro.

1975: Frankenstein, Alfred. William Sidney Mount. New York, 1975: 15-16, ill. 3.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 200, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 238, repro.

1998: Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 312-314, repro.