Francis Garden of Troup, Scotland (?), c. 1745

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 74 x 61.3 cm (29 1/8 x 24 1/8 in.)

framed: 90.5 x 78.1 x 5.1 cm (35 5/8 x 30 3/4 x 2 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.93

Artists / Makers

Scottish 18th Century (painter)

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Inscription

falsely signed and dated, lower right: JS 1734

Provenance

(Macbeth Galleries, New York); sold 2 December 1916 to 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

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

Exhibition History

1917: Early American Paintings, Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1917, no. 89, as Alexander Garden by John Smibert.

1924: Exhibition of the Earliest Known Portraits of Americans by Painters of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, The Union League Club, March 1924, no. 6, as Alexander Garden by John Smibert.

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 Alexander Garden by John Smibert.

Bibliography

1917: Early American Paintings. Exh. cat. Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, 1917: repro. 80, 81, no. 89, as Alexander Garden by John Smibert.

1927: Carroll, Dana. "Early American Portrait Painting." International Studio 86 (February 1927): repro. 70, as Alexander Garden by John Smibert.

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 Alexander Garden by John Smibert.

1929: Bayley, Frank W. Five Colonial Artists of New England. Boston, 1929: repro. 385, as Alexander Garden by John Smibert.

1950: Foote, Henry Wilder. John Smibert, Painter. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950: 234-235, 239-240, as the so-called Rev. Alexander Garden by an unidentified artist.

1952: Rutledge and Lane 1952, 98-99.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 146, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 291, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 421, repro.

1993: Saunders, Richard H. "The Eighteenth-Century Portrait in American Culture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." In The Portrait in Eighteenth-Century America. Edited by Ellen G. Miles. Newark and London, 1993: 147.