Jacob (?) Leman
c. 1808
Artist, American, 1776 - 1842
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 22.9 x 17.5 cm (9 x 6 7/8 in.)
framed: 33.7 x 28.6 x 4.3 cm (13 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 1 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1953.5.12
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Leman family, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; by descent to Adelia Leman [1857-1947], Lancaster, grandniece of the artist.[1] Acquired, likely purchased from Adelia Leman's estate, in 1948 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, New York, and Cambridge, Maryland; gift 1953 to NGA.
[1] Helen W. Henderson's opening comments in the brochure accompanying the 1943 exhibition Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842, American Artist at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, report: "A peculiarly touching incident was a visit to the outskirts of Lancaster to see the collection of a grandniece of the painter's. She sat in her bower surrounded by these souvenirs of a rich past. A particularly charming phase of the artist's work is a series of small oval portraits on wood. Many of them are family portraits and we were fortunate in procuring four from her collection."
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1943
Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842, American Artist, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1943, no. 24, as George Leman.
2003
The Worlds of Jacob Eichholtz, Portrait Painter of the Early Republic, shown at one of three simultaneous venues: Lancaster County Historical Society, Pennsylvania, 2003, unnumbered catalogue, repro. and fig. 3.4.
Bibliography
1960
Milley, John Calvin. "Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842." Master's thesis, University of Delaware, 1960: 30, as George Leman.
1969
Beal, Rebecca J. Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842. Philadelphia, 1969: 135, no. 458, repro. 283.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 56, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 154, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 171, repro.
1996
Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 199-201, repro.
Inscriptions
on reverse: Adelia Leman / 1808; upper right reverse: (5)
Wikidata ID
Q20182405