Provenance
Commissioned 1796 by the sitter [1729-1806], Philadelphia; by inheritance to his daughter, Elizabeth Shippen Burd [1754-1828, Mrs. Edward Burd], Philadelphia; by inheritance to her daughter, Miss Burd;[1] gift to the sitter's great- granddaughter, Mrs. John Julius Izard Pringle [née Jane Lynch], Georgetown, South Carolina; purchased 1874 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
Exhibition History
- 1925
- Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver Assembled by the Washington Loan Exhibition Committee, National Gallery of Art (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, 5 December 1925 - 3 January 1926, no. 66.
- 1939
- Three Hundred Years of Life in America: A Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings Held During the Period of the New York World's Fair, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 24 April - 29 October 1929, no. 56.
- 1959
- Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, 1959, unnumbered checklist.
- 1966
- Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, unpublished checklist.
- 1967
- Gilbert Stuart: Portraitist of the Young Republic, 1755-1928, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1967, no. 37.
- 2008
- The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, unpublished checklist.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- American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.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. "Gilbert Stuart, Edward Shippen." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 56-57, 254-255, repro.
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