Possibly Robert Thew

c. 1780/1790

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 90 x 71 cm (35 7/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
    framed: 109.9 x 92.1 x 8.3 cm (43 1/4 x 36 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.8.24

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Henry Graves & Co., London); sold c. 1884 to (Samuel P. Avery, New York), as by Gilbert Stuart. Daniel F. Appleton, New York; by inheritance to his son, James W. Appleton, Ipswich, Massachusetts; from whom it was purchased 3 May 1921 by Thomas B. Clarke [d. 1931], New York;[1] sold by Clarke's executors 29 January 1936 through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), as part of the Clarke collection, to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift to NGA, 1942.
[1] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1921

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 2, as Robert Thew by Gilbert Stuart.

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 Robert Thew by Gilbert Stuart.

1944

  • Gilbert Stuart: Portraits Lent by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1944-1945, no. 2.

1947

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1947.

1948

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1948.

1949

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1949.

1950

  • The Face of American History, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, 1950, no. 11, as Robert Thew by Gilbert Stuart.

1951

  • American Portraits from the National Gallery of Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1951, no. 10, repro. (organized by the Atlanta Art Association).

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951.

1952

  • [Opening exhibition], Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1952, no. cat.

  • Opening Exhibition of The George Thomas Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga Art Association, Tennessee, 1952, unnumbered.

1953

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.

1955

  • Famous Americans, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1955, no cat.

Bibliography

1926

  • Park, Lawrence. Gilbert Stuart. 4 vols. New York, 1926, 2:no. 833; repro.; 4:517.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 172, repro., as by European of Unknown Nationality.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 308, repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 414, repro., as by Unknown Nationality 19th Century.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 301-302, repro. 302.

Wikidata ID

Q20179018

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