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  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
  • Bibliography
Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest); sold 2 August 1922 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] sold by his heirs through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York) 29 January 1936 to the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA

[1] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).

Exhibition History
1923
Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, 1923, no. 1, as Adrian Van Der Donck by Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker.
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 cat., as Adrian Van Der Donck by Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker.
2009
Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson, Museum of the City of New York, 2009, no catalogue.
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 Adrian Van Der Donck by Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 168, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 136, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 309.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 24, repro.
2009
Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: 480, repro.