The Reverend John Albert Ryan, 1825/1829

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.81

Artists / Makers

John Neagle (artist) American, 1796 - 1865

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Inscription

lower left: J Neagle / 1829

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

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Johnson, C. K.
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.

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.