Portrait of a Gentleman

Provenance

(John Nicholson Gallery, New York), by 1956.[1] (Charles Childs, Boston); (Miss Eunice Chambers, American Paintings, Hartsville, SC), by 1962; [2] (Osborne Gallery/Tribune Gallery, New York); purchased 31 October 1966 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] John Nicholson mentions the painting in a letter dated 20 February 1956 to Horace Hotchkiss, Corcoran Gallery of Art. The painting was first exhibited at Nicholson Gallery in 1958. [2] Letter dated 9 October 1962 from Miss Eunice Chambers to Dorothy W. Phillips, Curator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, offering the painting. According to a note on the back of a black and white photograph at the Frick Art Reference Library Supply File, “Miss Chambers says she got this from Charles Childs, dlr, Boston.” The portrait is also included on the "List of American Paintings owned by Miss Eunice Chambers,Hartsville, SC" sent by Miss Chambers to the Frick Art Reference Library in 1966, in which she writes that she sold the painting to the Osborne Gallery.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Blackburn, Joseph

c. 1760

Accession Number

2014.79.7

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 127.2 × 101.9 cm (50 1/16 × 40 1/8 in.) | framed: 144.8 × 120 × 10.2 cm (57 × 47 1/4 × 4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)