Portrait of a Man, c. 1810

Not on View

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 76.5 x 61.6 cm (30 1/8 x 24 1/4 in.)

framed: 87.6 x 72.4 x 7 cm (34 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.44

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (painter)

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Inscription

originally falsely signed and dated, lower left, now removed: R. Earl Pinx / 1798

Provenance

(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York); purchased 15 January 1917 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; (his sale, American Art Galleries, 7 January 1919, no. 20);[1] Charles A. Munn, New York; repurchased 1920 by Clarke; 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.

[1] The portrait was listed in the sale catalogue, De Luxe Illstrated Catalogue of Early American Portraits Collected by Mr. Thomas B. Clarke, New York, 1919: no. 20.

Associated Names

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

Exhibition History

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, as Samuel Stanhope Smith by Ralph Earl.

1968: Loan for display with the permanent collection, Boyhood Home of Robert E. Lee, Alexandria, Virginia, 1968-1986.

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, as Samuel Stanhope Smith by Ralph Earl.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 144, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 289, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 419, 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: 272-275, color repro.