Charles Adams Wheeler, c. 1790

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 107.3 x 76.8 cm (42 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.)

framed: 118.7 x 87.9 x 5.4 cm (46 3/4 x 34 5/8 x 2 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1953.5.57

Artists / Makers

The Beardsley Limner (painter) American, active 1785/1805

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Provenance

Descended in the family of Henry Wheeler, Boston. (Childs Gallery, Boston, by December 1949). (Old Print Shop, New York), by whom sold in 1950 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.

Associated Names

Childs Gallery
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
The Old Print Shop
Wheeler family, Henry

Exhibition History

1957: Little-Known Connecticut Artists, 1790-1810, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1957-1958 (cat. by Nina Fletcher Little) in Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 22 (October 1957): 100, no. 12.

1972: The Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries, A. A. Rockefeller Folk Art Ceneter, Williamsburg; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; and New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1972-1973, no. 4. (cat. by Christine S. Schloss).

Bibliography

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 156, repro., as by Unknown American.

1973: Schloss, Christine Skeeles. "The Beardsley Limner." Antiques 103 (March 1973): 534, fig. 3.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 25, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 27, repro.

1992: Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 16-17, color repro. 17.