David Hunter, c. 1800

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 68.58 × 58.42 cm (27 × 23 in.)

framed: 80.01 × 59.06 cm (31 1/2 × 23 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Francis Washington Weeks and Miss Nancy Hunter Weeks)

Accession Number

2016.23.6

Artists / Makers

Charles Peale Polk (painter) American, 1767 - 1822

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Provenance

Commissioned by the sitter's father, Moses Hunter [1753-1798], Martinsburg, West Virginia;[1] by inheritance to his wife, Ann Stephen Dandridge Hunter [1752-1834], Martinsburg, and Hazelfield, near Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia;[2] by inheritance to her granddaughter, Ann Stephen Hunter Weeks [1819-1896, Mrs. Alfred Conrad Weeks], St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, and Washington; by inheritance to her son, Beverley Warner Weeks [1862-1924], Fernandina, Florida; by inheritance to his daughters, Frances Washington Weeks [1891-1979], Washington, and Nancy Hunter Weeks [1898-1960]; gift 18 July 1960 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] At this time Martinsburg was in the state of Virginia.

[2] Ann Stephen's first husband was Alexander Spottswood Dandridge (1752-1785), who had been an aide to his brother-in-law, Patrick Henry (married to his sister Dorothea), early in the American Revolution; she and Dandridge had one son. She married Moses Hunter in 1787, and they had three children together. This painting, along with NGA 2016.23.7 and 2016.23.8, are portraits of the three Hunter children.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Hunter, Anne Dandridge
Hunter, Moses
Weeks, Anne Stephen Hunter
Weeks, Beverley Warner
Weeks, Frances Washington
Weeks, Nancy Hunter

Exhibition History

1981: Charles Peale Polk, 1776-1822: A Limner and His Likenesses, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia; Dayton Art Institute; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 18 July 1981 - 15 October 1982, no. 118, repro.

1983: Three American Families: A Tradition of Artistic Pursuit, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York; Whitney Museum at Fairfied County, Connecticut, 8 September 1983 - 11 January 1984.

1996: The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 1770-1870, Philadelphia Museum of Art; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996-1997, unnumbered checklist.

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: 36.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 313, repro.