Portrait of a Gentleman
c. 1760
Painter, British, 1734 - 1797
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 76.5 x 63.9 cm (30 1/8 x 25 3/16 in.)
framed: 102.2 x 89.2 x 10.2 cm (40 1/4 x 35 1/8 x 4 in.) -
Accession
1947.17.112
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Said to have been in private ownership in Georgetown, South Carolina, whence purchased by a New York dealer (perhaps Charles Henry Hart). Philipse Manor Hall Museum, Yonkers, New York, by 1910;[1] from which it was purchased c. 1917, with the rest of the property, by (C.W. Lyon, New York); sold 5 March 1917 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] sold by Clarke's executors to (M. Knoedler & Co.), New York, from whom it was purchased 29 January 1936, as part of the Clarke collection, by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift to NGA, 1947.
[1] According to notes on the Clarke collection in NGA files, Charles Henry Hart and Thomas B. Clarke were closely associated in assembling portraits for Philipse Manor Hall over a five-year period. [2] Acquisition date 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
1922
Portraits Painted in the United States by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, February 1922, no. 11, as Josias Allston by Jeremiah Theus.
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 Josaias Allston by Jeremiah Theus.
1949
Exhibition of Early American Portraits on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, North Carolina, 1949, no. 2, as Josias Allston by Jeremiah Theus.
1950
The Face of American History, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, 1950, no. 19, as Josias Allston by Jeremiah Theus.
1951
American Portraits from the National Gallery of Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1951, no. 3, repro. (organized by the Atlanta Art Association).
1955
American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
1956
American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956.
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 164, repro., as Portrait of a Man.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 376, repro., as Portrait of a Man.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 309, as Portrait of a Man.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 439, repro.
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: 340-342, repro. 341.
Wikidata ID
Q20178197