Portrait of a Quaker
1795
Painter, Swedish, 1751 - 1811
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 71.2 x 56.1 cm (28 1/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
framed: 83.2 x 67.6 x 2.9 cm (32 3/4 x 26 5/8 x 1 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1954.1.4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); purchased 1930 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection on 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1954 to NGA.
[1] The name of the seller is according to a copy of Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, (Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928) annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).
Associated Names
Bibliography
1956
Benisovich, Michel. "Wertmüller et son Livre de Raison intitulé La 'Notte.'" Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 6th ser., 48 (July-August 1956): 59.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 162, repro., as Portrait of a Man by American (?).
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 307, as Portrait of a Man by Unknown [Formerly Considered American].
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 414, repro., as Portrait of a Man by Unknown Nationaliy 18th Century.
1995
Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 313-316, color repro. 315.
Wikidata ID
Q20180261