William Crook Rudman, Jr., c. 1845

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.4 x 64 cm (30 1/16 x 25 3/16 in.)

framed: 90.2 x 80 x 7.3 cm (35 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 2 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.80

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (painter)

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Provenance

Carlotta Herring Broune, the sitter's niece, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; (sale, Stan V. Henkels, Philadelphia, 30 June and 1 July 1921, no. 48, as by John Neagle);[1] 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.

[1] It is listed in the sale catalogue "Fine Old Paintings, Estate of Julia Bailey...and from other sources," as by John Neagle [sic], but the consignor is not identified. The Clarke collection records give the date of the sale inaccurately as 14 October 1921. Carlotta Herring Broune's name is also spelled Browne in the Clarke records, but her signature on a 26 November 1921 letter to Charles Harris appears to read Broune. (This note does not appear in the provenance as published in the NGA systematic catalogue entry.)

Associated Names

Broune, Carlotta Herring
Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Henkels, Stan. V.
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.

Exhibition History

1923: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, 1923, no. 16, as William C. Rudman by John Neagle.

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 C. Rudman by John Neagle.

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 by John Neagle.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 150, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 295, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 425, 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: 303-304, repro.