Portrait of a Man, c. 1845

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 36.2 x 30.6 cm (14 1/4 x 12 1/16 in.)

framed: 48.9 x 44.5 x 6 cm (19 1/4 x 17 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.97

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (painter)

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Provenance

(Augustus W. Oberwalder [Augustus de Forest], New York); (his sale, Keeler Art Galleries, New York, 4 May 1922, no. 7); (Weidenback Galleries, New York); sold 29 November 1924 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
Keeler Art Galleries
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Weidenback Galleries
de Forest, Augustus

Exhibition History

1926: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1926, no. 10, as Charles G. Eastman by Junius Brutus Stearns.

Bibliography

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: 422, repro.