Henry Clay, 1821

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 91.76 × 71.44 cm (36 1/8 × 28 1/8 in.)

framed: 119.86 × 99.54 × 13.97 cm (47 3/16 × 39 3/16 × 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.118

Artists / Makers

Charles Bird King (painter) American, 1785 - 1862

Image Use

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Provenance

John Cranch [1807-1891], Urbana, Ohio;[1] purchased 9 May 1981 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Cranch was an American painter and print collector.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Cranch, John

Exhibition History

1916: Loan for display at the National Cathedral School for Girls, Washington, 1916-1942.

1966: Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, April - September 1966, unpublished checklist.

1973: Loan for display at the U.S. Department of State, Washington, 1973.

1977: The Paintings of Charles Bird King (1785-1862), National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, 4 November 1977 - 22 January 1978, no. 47, repro.

1993: Messengers of Style: Itinerancy and Taste in Southern Portraiture, 1790-1861, Greenville County Museum of Art, 19 January - 7 March 1993.

2005: Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 11.

2007: Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763-1848, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 27 September 2007 - 10 February 2008, no. 56, repro.

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

2017: Extended loan for use by Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 2017-2018.

Bibliography

1966: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 50, repro.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 305, repro.