Provenance
The sitter's son, Levi Dickson [1805-1872], Philadelphia. Susan Allen Dickson, Philadelphia.[1] the artist's son, Garrett Cross Neagle, Philadelphia; Gilbert Sunderland Parker, Philadelphia; Mrs. Anna P. Bly; (William Macbeth, New York); Franklin Bulkeley Smith [1864-1918], Worcester, Massachusetts; (his estate sale, American Art Association, 22-23 April 1920, no. 149); purchased by C. Deardon, probably for 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.
Exhibition History
- 1887
- Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1887-1888, no. 126.
- 1921
- Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 4.
- 1925
- Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925, no. 31.
- 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.
Bibliography
- 1925
- Fielding, Mantle. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925: no. 31, 50.
- 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.
- 1959
- Patrick, Ransom R. "The Early Life of John Neagle, Philadelphia Portrait Painter." Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1959: 93-94.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 84, repro.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 200, repro.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 239, 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: 24-27, repro.
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