The Artist's Brother - Richard Greenough (?)

c. 1850

Horatio Greenough

Associated Names
Horatio Greenough

Artist, American, 1805 - 1852

The image shows a drawing of a man from the chest up, positioned in profile, facing to the right. He has distinctive facial features with a prominent mustache and focused eyes. His hair is mid-length and falls neatly across his forehead and sides. He is dressed in a coat with a wide collar and underneath wears a striped scarf or cravat around his neck. No jewelry or objects are visible in the drawing. The background is plain and unadorned, with no distinct features apart from the texture of the paper on which the drawing is made.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    John Davis Hatch Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 22.4 × 14.9 cm (8 13/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1979.20.50

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Davis Hatch [1907-1996], by 1976; gift 1979 to the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1976

  • Hatch, John Davis. 100 American Drawings: Loan Exhibition from the Collection of John Davis Hatch. London: Heim Gallery, 1976, no. 52.

Inscriptions

lower right verso in graphite: unknown man by / Horatio Greenough / sepia ink drg.; lower left verso: 24 (reversed) / purchased June 1955 / from Mrs. H. [not deciphered] (a descendent in Zurich) [not deciphered]

Wikidata ID

Q64574461

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