Portrait of a Gentleman

Provenance

Perhaps (Copley Gallery, Boston). (Robert C. Vose, Boston); sold 21 August 1930 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York, as a portrait of Robert Auchmuty by Joseph Badger;[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, 1947. [1] 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). The provenance from Samuel Auchmuty, son of the supposed sitter, supplied to the Robert C. Vose by the dealer Rose M. de Forest, has been questioned by John Hill Morgan (undated note in NGA curatorial files) and cannot be verified.

Portrait of a Gentleman

British 18th Century

c. 1726/1740

Accession Number

1947.17.22

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 127.2 x 101.6 cm (50 1/16 x 40 in.) | framed: 143.5 x 119.4 x 6.4 cm (56 1/2 x 47 x 2 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection