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Inscription

lower left: TS (in monogram) 18[--]

Provenance

John Foster Jenkins [1826-1882], husband of the sitters' sister, Elizabeth Sicard David Jenkins [d. 1885]; their son, John Foster Jenkins, Jr. [1861-1931], Yonkers, New York; Albert Rosenthal [1863-1939], Philadelphia, and (Ehrich Galleries, New York);[1] Cornelius Michaelsen, New York; (his sale, Rains Galleries, New York, 8 May 1935, no. 88); Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1826
Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1826, no. 19.
1917
Exhibition of Portraits by Stuart and Sully, Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1917, no. 17.
1920
Paintings by Thomas Sully, Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1920, unnumbered.
1931
Loan Exhibition of Early American Paintings, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1931, no. 16.
1937
An Exhibition of American Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, The Union League Club, New York, 1937, no. 12.
1944
John Trumbull and his Contemporaries, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, 1944, no. 122.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1909
Hart 1909, no. 417, 52.
1921
Biddle, Edward, and Mantle Fielding. The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Philadelphia, 1921: no. 438, 135.
1937
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Some Unfamiliar American Paintings." Art News 35, no. 17 (23 January 1937): 20.
1965
Paintings other than French in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 34, repro.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 112, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 244, repro.
1981
Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: detail 84, 87, color repro. 95.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 362, 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: 165-168, color repro.

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