Thomas Corcoran, c. 1802/1810

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 92.71 × 75.09 cm (36 1/2 × 29 9/16 in.)

framed: 110.49 × 85.09 × 8.57 cm (43 1/2 × 33 1/2 × 3 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Katherine Wood Dunlap)

Accession Number

2014.136.65

Artists / Makers

Charles Peale Polk (painter) American, 1767 - 1822

Image Use

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Provenance

By descent through the family of the sitter to his grand-daughter, Kate Thom Wood [Mrs. Thomas Newton Wood];[1] by inheritance to her daughter, Katherine Wood Dunlap [1884-1970, Mrs. Robert Henry Dunlap]; gift 1947 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The sitter was a brother of William Wilson Corcoran, founder of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Dunlap, Katherine Wood
Wood, Kate Thom

Exhibition History

1951: Progress of a Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951, no catalogue.

1966: Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, unpublished checklist.

1976: Corcoran [The American Genuis], Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1976, no checklist.

1981: Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), A Limner and His Likenesses, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg; Dayton Art Institute; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1981-1982, no. 142.

1988: Creating the Federal City, 1774-1800: Potomac Fever, Octagon Museum, Washington, 1988, no checklist.

1996: The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870, Philadelphia Museum of Art; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996-1997, unnumbered checklist (shown only in Washington).

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, unpublished checklist.

2009: American Paintings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 6 June-18 October 2009, unpublished checklist.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011: Miles, Ellen G. "Charles Peale Polk, Hannah Lemmon Corcoran (Mrs. Thomas Corcoran)." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 60-61, 255, repro.

2021: Fulco, Daniel. "Joshua Johnson: Pioneer of American Portraiture." Joshua Johnson: Portraitist of Early American Baltimore. Hagerstown, MD, 2021: 20, fig. 3.