Portrait of a Young Boy (Henry Ebenezer Bingham?)

Provenance

Henry E. Bingham [1866-1949], London ;[1] by descent to his grandson, Trevor H.B. Shaw, Esq. [1923-1996], Surrey;[2] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 June 1989, no. 36);[3] (Thos. Agnew & Sons Limited, London); purchased 8 January 1991 by NGA. [1] The late Trevor H.B. Shaw, Esq., letter of 9 March 1995, to Suzanne G. Lindsay (in NGA curatorial files). The Bingham tomb (Brompton Cemetery, London) cites his death date as 27 July 1949, at age eighty-two. William Agnew, Diana Keith-Neal, and Tiggy Sawbridge helped with this biographical research. A letter from Alison Luchs in the NGA Curatorial Records states that this bust could have been sculpted for Bingham (who was a marble supplier) in return for marble he gave Dalou, in which case the subject would be his son, Henry Ebenezar Bingham. [2] _Master Drawings and Sculpture_. Exh. cat. Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, 1989: no. 62, color repro. [3] _Nineteenth Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture_, Sotheby's, London, 20 June 1989, no. 36, color repro.

Portrait of a Young Boy (Henry Ebenezer Bingham?)

Dalou, Aimé-Jules

1871/1879

Accession Number

1991.2.1

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 47.6 x 26.5 x 17.6 cm (18 3/4 x 10 7/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art