Portrait of a Lady

c. 1830

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 91.8 x 71.4 cm (36 1/8 x 28 1/8 in.)
    framed: 116.5 x 96.5 x 6.4 cm (45 7/8 x 38 x 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.75

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Henry Hart [1847-1918], New York; his estate; purchased 1920 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

1921

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 15, as Katharine Augusta Rhodes Ware by Samuel F. B. Morse.

1926

  • A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1926, no. 18, as Katharine Augusta Rhodes Ware by Samuel F. B. Morse.

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 cat., as Katharine Augusta Rhodes Ware by Samuel F.B. Morse.

1988

  • Extended loan for use by Blair House, Washington, D.C., 1988-1989.

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 Katharine Augusta Rhodes Ware by Samuel F. B. Morse.

1930

  • Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. Early American Portraiture. New York, 1930: 37.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 144, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 288, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 419, 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: 288-289, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20185714

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