Joseph Wesley Harper, Jr.

Provenance

Elizabeth B. Johnson, the artist's widow, New York; sold 20 June 1909 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA. [1] The name of the seller, "Mrs. Eastman Johnson," and the date of the purchase by Clarke are recorded in a copy of _Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke_ (Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928) annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).

Joseph Wesley Harper, Jr.

Johnson, Eastman

c. 1885

Accession Number

1947.17.63

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 69.2 x 56.5 cm (27 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.) | framed: 76.8 x 65.4 x 5.1 cm (30 1/4 x 25 3/4 x 2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection