The Reverend John Albert Ryan

1825/1829

John Neagle

Associated Names
John Neagle

Artist, American, 1796 - 1865

The image is a portrait painting of a man's upper body. The man is facing the viewer directly, slightly leaning back. He has a round face with prominent cheeks and fair complexion. His hair is short, curly, and gray, framing his face. He is wearing a dark coat over a waistcoat and a high white cravat tied elegantly around his neck. The background is warm, muted brown. There are no visible objects or jewelry. The painting is signed by the artist on the left side with the name "Noyes" and the year "1829".

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 76.5 x 63.8 cm (30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.)
    framed: 91.1 x 78.1 x 6.4 cm (35 7/8 x 30 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.17.81

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.K. Johnson, Greenwich, Connecticut); purchased 1 May 1923 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

Exhibition History

1829

  • Eighteenth Annual Exhibition, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1829, no. 95.

1924

  • Exhibition of the Earliest Known Portraits of Americans by Painters of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, The Union League Club, New York, March 1924, no. 11.

1925

  • Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925, no. 29.

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 John Albert Ryan.

Bibliography

1925

  • Fielding, Mantle. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925: no. 29, 48.

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.

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: 201, 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: 21-24, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: J Neagle / 1829

Wikidata ID

Q20185354

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