Eliab Metcalf (?), c. 1815

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 68.1 x 53.5 cm (26 13/16 x 21 1/16 in.)

framed: 85.4 x 72.4 x 4.8 cm (33 5/8 x 28 1/2 x 1 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.72

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (painter)

Image Use

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Provenance

(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York; purchased 22 March 1921 by 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
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
de Forest, Rose M.

Exhibition History

1921: Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, December 1921, no. 17, as Alexander Anderson by Eliab Metcalfe.

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 Alexander Anderson by Eliab Metcalfe.

1972: Loan for display with permanent collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 1972-1974.

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 Alexander Anderson.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 82, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 198, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 235, 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: 275-277, repro.