Portrait of a Lady

Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 19 September 1922 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York, as a portrait of Ruth Cunningham by Robert Feke;[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 Nathaniel Cunningham of Cambridge, Massachusetts, brother of the supposed sitter, supplied by the dealer, de Forest, is suspect and cannot be verified; see undated note by John Hill Morgan in NGA curatorial files.

Portrait of a Lady

British 18th Century

c. 1770/1775

Accession Number

1947.17.48

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 93.3 x 71.8 cm (36 3/4 x 28 1/4 in.) | framed: 108.9 x 88.6 x 6.4 cm (42 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection