Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton

1815/1817

Sir William Beechey

Artist, British, 1753 - 1839

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Coe Foundation

  • Dimensions

    overall: 77 x 63.7 cm (30 5/16 x 25 1/16 in.)
    framed: 99 x 85.7 x 7.6 cm (39 x 33 3/4 x 3 in.)

  • Accession

    1961.5.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist; purchased February 1817 by Mr. Hall(?).[1] Major Campbell. (John Levy Galleries, New York), 1934; purchased by Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Jones, Jr. [1868-1928], Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania; (sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 4-5 December 1941, 1st day, no. 22); William R. Coe [1869-1955], Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York; Coe Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] There were four recorded versions of this portrait. One remained in Beechey's possession, and was purchased by the Duke of Wellington at the sale following the artist's death. This is now at Apsley House, London. Another was bought from Beechey for fifty guineas, the price of the original, by a Mr. Hall, who paid for it in February 1917. The Washington [NGA] picture is inferior in quality to the version at Apsley House, which is more solidly modeled and more firmly drawn, and may well be the portrait acquired by Hall, probably painted to order.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador David K.E. Bruce, U.S. Embassy residence, London, England, 1961-1969.

1972

  • Extended loan for use by Caspar Weinberger, Director of the Budget and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C., 1972-1975.

1978

  • Extended loan for use by the U.S. Embassy, London, England, 1978-

Bibliography

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 11, as General Sir Thomas Picton.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 4, repro., as General Sir Thomas Picton.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 20, repro., as General Sir Thomas Picton.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 38, 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: 10-12, repro. 11.

Wikidata ID

Q20183685

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