Portrait of a Quaker, 1795

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1954.1.4

Artists / Makers

Adolph-Ulrich Wertmüller (painter) Swedish, 1751 - 1811

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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

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
de Forest, Rose M.

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.