Edward Savage

American, 1761 - 1817

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American artist (1761-1817)

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Edward Savage, Congress Voting Independence, 1859-1906, stipple, engraving and etching in black on heavyweight wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund), 2015.19.598

Congress Voting Independence

Edward Savage · 1859-1906 · stipple, engraving and etching in black on heavyweight wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.598

Edward Savage, The Washington Family, 1798, engraving, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1942.8.42

The Washington Family

Edward Savage · 1798 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1942.8.42

Edward Savage, George Washington, c. 1796, oil on canvas, Gift of Henry Prather Fletcher, 1960.3.1

George Washington

Edward Savage · c. 1796 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1960.3.1

A light-skinned man, woman, boy, and girl, and a brown-skinned man sit and stand around a table spread with papers and a map in this horizontal portrait. The light-skinned man sits on a red upholstered chair at the table to our left, and his body faces our right in profile. His legs are crossed, and he rests his right elbow, closer to us, on the back of the chair. He has a sloping, rounded nose, dark eyes, jowls along his jawline, and his closed mouth juts forward. His left arm rests on an open pamphlet on the table next to a sword with a delicate silver hilt. To our left, the young boy stands also looks to our right in profile, next to the older man's chair. The boy wears a dusky rose-pink suit with a white lacy collar. With his right hand, he pulls back a dark green cloth covering a globe on a wooden stand along the left edge of the canvas. The woman sits at the right side of the table, across from the man. She has dark eyes, full cheeks, a double chin, and her pale lips are closed. She wears a voluminous ivory satin gown and petticoat with a black lace shawl, and an ivory cap with a satin bow covers her gray hair. She points to a spot on a map on the table with a closed fan held in her right hand. The young girl, wearing a gauzy white dress with a pine-green sash at the waist, stands on the far side of the table near the woman, holding the curling edges of the map. Behind the women, the brown-skinned man wears a rust-orange and gray uniform, and stands with one hand tucked into his vest in the shadows at the edge of the composition. His features are indistinct but he faces our left in profile. The room has a gold-and-yellow checkerboard floor, and a red cloth drapes from columns frame the scene to each side. It is unclear whether a river view at the back of the room is seen through an open window or door, or if it is a large painting behind the people.
Edward Savage, The Washington Family, 1789-1796, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1940.1.2

The Washington Family

Edward Savage · 1789-1796 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1940.1.2

Bibliography

1869

  • Dunlap, William. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States. 2 vols. 1834: 1:321, 2:75-76.

1915

  • Blake, Francis Everett. History of the Town of Princeton. 2 vols. Princeton, Massachusetts, 1915: 1:294-297, 2:260-261.

1952

  • Dresser, Louisa. "Edward Savage, 1761-1817." Art in America 40 (no. 4, Autumn 1952): 155-212.

1954

  • Gottesman, Rita Susswein. The Arts and Crafts in New York, 1777-1800. New York, 1954: 18.

1959

  • Gottesman, Rita Susswein. "New York's First Major Art Show." New-York Historical Society Quarterly 43 (July 1959): 288-305.

1965

  • Gottesman, Rita Susswein. The Arts and Crafts in New York, 1800-1804. New York, 1965: 25-26, 29-37.

1983

  • Miller, Lillian B., et al., eds. The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. 3 vols. New Haven and London, 1983-1991: 2(1988):113-114, 744, 913, 932, 934.

1995

  • Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 145-146.