Mr. Willson, 1720

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 106.7 x 91.4 cm (42 x 36 in.)

framed: 122.2 x 106.7 x 8.2 cm (48 1/8 x 42 x 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1957.11.9

Artists / Makers

The Schuyler Limner (painter) American, active c. 1717 - 1725

Nehemiah Partridge (painter) American, 1683 - c. 1737

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: AEtas. Suae. / 35. years / 1720

Provenance

Joseph Willson (brother of Samuel Willson, who may have been the sitter); passed to Joseph's remarried widow, Elizabeth Willson Hallett; by descent to her daughter, Catherine Hallett Sinott; by descent to her daughter, Catherine Sinott Boone; by descent to her daughter, Catherine Boone Robinson; by descent to her daughter, Catherine Robinson, by whom sold (date unknown). Owned jointly by (Harry Shaw Newman Gallery and M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1947-1948);[1] sold 1948 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift 1957 to NGA.

[1] This provenance information, assembled sometime before 1948 by M. Knoedler and Co. (prospectus in NGA curatorial file) from various sources including family records, cannot now be verified.

Associated Names

Boone, Catherine Sinott
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Hallett, Elizabeth Lamb Willson
Knoedler & Company, M.
Newman Gallery, Harry Shaw
Robinson, Catherine
Robinson, Catherine Boone
Sinott, Catherine Hallett
Willson, Joseph

Exhibition History

1945: 18th Century American Paintings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1945, no cat.

1947: Colonial Americans, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (now Columbus Museum of Art), Ohio, 1947, no. 25.

1948: American Paintings of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1948, no. 2.

1967: Merchants and Planters of the Upper Hudson Valley 1700-1750, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg; Albany Institute of History and Art; Museum of American Folk Art and New-York Historical Soc., New York, 1967, unnumbered brochure.

1970: Two Centuries of American Portraits, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington; Paducah Art Gallery, Kentucky; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 1970, no cat.

1977: Loan for display with permanent collection, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1977-1979.

Bibliography

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

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 303, repro., as by Unknown American.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 334, 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: 337-339, repro. 338.