James Cuthbert (?), c. 1765

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 75.3 x 62.3 cm (29 5/8 x 24 1/2 in.)

framed: 87.3 x 74.6 x 3.8 cm (34 3/8 x 29 3/8 x 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1965.15.6

Artists / Makers

Jeremiah Theus (painter) American, 1716 - 1774

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Provenance

Sophie Cuthbert Aspinwall [Mrs. Woolsey Aspinwall], Washington;[1] her son, John Cuthbert Aspinwall, Norfolk, Virginia; sold to (Eunice Chambers, Hartsville, South Carolina);[2] purchased January 1955 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift 1965 to NGA.

[1] Mrs. Aspinwall told the Frick Art Reference Library in 1928 that the portrait and the pendant of Mrs. Cuthbert [1965.15.7] had always been owned by members of the Cuthbert family of Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina. The correct names and relationships of members of the Cuthbert and Aspinwall families were provided by their cousin Middleton Train of Washington, who confirmed the spelling of Mrs. Aspinwall's first name as "Sophie"; telephone conversation, 29 December 1989. (Margaret Simons Middleton, Jeremiah Theus: Colonial Artist of Charles Town, Columbia, SC, 1953: 195, listed her incorrectly as Mrs. Clarence A. Aspinwall.)

[2] Letter from the Frick Art Reference Library, 19 December 1989.

Associated Names

Aspinwall, John Cuthbert
Aspinwall, Sophie Cuthbert
Chambers, Eunice
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1972: Loan for display with permanent collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 1972-1974.

1976: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Frank Carlucci, U.S. Embassy residence, Lisbon, Portugal, 1976-1979.

Bibliography

1953: Middleton, Margaret Simons. Jeremiah Theus: Colonial Artist of Charles Town. Columbia, South Carolina, 1953: 126.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 116, repro., as Mr. Cuthbert.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 247, repro., as Mr. Cuthbert.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 367, repro., as Mr. Cuthbert.

1995: Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 294-295, repro. 296.