Captain Robert Calder

Provenance

Archibald Ramsden, Regent's Park, London; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1-2 February 1917, 2nd day, no. 239, as by Gilbert Stuart); bought by (Frank T. Sabin), London; from whom it was purchased 1920 by (G.S. Sedgwick) for Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] 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, 1954. [1] Clarke's purchase from the Sabin sale 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).

Captain Robert Calder

Abbott, Lemuel Francis

c. 1787/1790

Accession Number

1954.1.8

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 92.1 x 71.8 cm (36 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.) | framed: 109.9 x 89.5 x 7 cm (43 1/4 x 35 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection