Junius Brutus Booth, c. 1830

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Medium

oil on canvas on cardboard

Dimensions

overall: 50.5 x 37.5 cm (19 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.)

framed: 74 x 61.6 x 11.4 cm (29 1/8 x 24 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.55

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (painter)

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Provenance

Evert Jansen Wendell; his estate; (sale, Grahaeme's Auction Room, New York, 12 April 1922); Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Grahaeme's Auction Room
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Wendell, Evert Jansen

Exhibition History

1923: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, 1923, no. 20, as William Augustus Conway by James Herring.

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, as William Augustus Conway by James Herring.

1967: Loan for display with permanent collection, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1967-1980.

Bibliography

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, as William Augustus Conway by James Herring.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 128, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 266, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 390, repro.

1998: Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 286-288, repro.