Provenance
The sitter's adopted daughter, Anne Béloste Taylor [Mrs. James Taylor, d. 1832], Albany, New York;[1] her daughter, Maria Taylor Hunt [Mrs. Ward Hunt, d. 1912], Utica, New York;[2] her nephew, Maunsell Van Rensselaer [1859-1952] and his wife, Isabella Mason Van Rensselaer [1861-1955], Albany and Huntington, New York;[3] (D.B. Butler & Co., New York); sold 16 April 1921 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[4] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection on 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1922
- Portraits Painted in the United States by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, February 1922, no. 14.
- 1926
- A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1926, no. 2.
- 1928
- Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue.
- 1949
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1949.
- 1949
- Exhibition of Early American Portraits on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, North Carolina, 1949, no. 7.
- 1951
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951.
- 1953
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.
- 1955
- Famous Americans, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1955, no cat.
- 1956
- John Trumbull, Painter-Patriot, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1956, no. 91.
- 1960
- Faces of America, Inaugural Exhibition, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas, 1960-1961, no cat.
- 1969
- Inaugural Exhibition: American Portraits, The Art Museum, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1969, no cat.
- 1970
- Two Centuries of American Portraits, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington; Paducah Art Gallery; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 1970, unnumbered
- 1974
- Extended loan for use by Dumbarton House (The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America), Washington, D.C., 1974-1990.
Bibliography
- 1867
- Tuckerman, Henry T. Book of the Artists. New York, 1867: 94, 628.
- 1901
- Weir, John F. John Trumbull, A Brief Sketch to Which Is Added a Catalogue of His Works. New York, 1901: 79.
- 1922
- Portraits Painted in the United States By Early American Artists. Exh. cat. Union League Club, New York, 1922: no. 14.
- 1922
- Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. "John Trumbull's Portrait of William Rogers." Art in America 10, no. 6 (October 1922): 259, repro. 260.
- 1928
- Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered.
- 1931
- Bolton, Theodore, and Harry Lorin Binsse. "Trumbull, `Historiographer' of the Revolution." The Antiquarian 17, no. 1 (July 1931): 56.
- 1949
- Early American Portraits on Loan From the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Exh. cat. Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, North Carolina, 1949: no. 7.
- 1949
- Sizer, Theodore. "A Tenative ` Short-Title' Check-List of the Works of Col. John Trumbull. Part III." The Art Bulletin 31 (March 1949): 25.
- 1956
- John Trumbull, Painter-Patriot, Exh. cat. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1956: no. 91.
- 1967
- Sizer, Theodore. The Works of Colonel John Trumbull. Rev. ed. New Haven and London, 1967: 62.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 116, repro.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 250, repro.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 369, repro.
- 1995
- Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 306-308, repro. 307.
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