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Rembrandt Peale

Richardson Stuart, c. 1815

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 52.4 x 37.2 cm (20 5/8 x 14 5/8 in.)

framed: 68.9 x 54 x 6.4 cm (27 1/8 x 21 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.85

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt Peale (artist) American, 1778 - 1860

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Provenance

Sarah Glen Douglas Stuart [Mrs. Richardson Stuart], Baltimore;[1] her brother, Jacob Douglas [1788-1873], Alexandria, Virginia; his daughter, Rebecca Douglas Hazlett; her son, Douglas Hazlett;[2] (sale, Stan. V. Henkels, Philadelphia, 5 February 1920, no. 25);[3] Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York, N.Y;[4] 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] Richardson Stuart's will, dated 18 October 1821, leaves to Sarah Glen, his second wife, his house in Baltimore "with the furniture Pictures and Plate" (Register of Wills, Baltimore, Maryland). Mrs. Stuart lent the portrait to the Peale Museum in 1823; see Catalogue of the Second Annual Exhibition in Peale's Baltimore Museum, of the Works of American Artists, including Sculpture, Painting, Architecture, Drawing, Engraving, etc. Likewise, a Selection from the Various Cabinets of Old Masters, in this City and its Vicinity, Baltimore, 1823: 6, no. 127.

[2] The provenance from Mrs. Stuart to Douglas Hazlett was provided by Hazlett to the Ehrich Galleries, New York, in a now unlocated letter whose content was recorded by the Frick Art Reference Library, New York. Ehrich Galleries' role, if any, in the sale by Hazlett is unknown. For Jacob Douglas' birth and death see Nancy Chappelear Baird, Fauquier County, Virginia, Tombstone Inscriptions, 1970, 202 (information courtesy of Lloyd House, Alexandria, librarian Sandra S. O'Keefe, 1991).

[3] Stanislaus V. Henkels, Oil Portraits of American Notables By Early American Artists, catalogue of auction on 5 February 1920: 7, illus. opp. 8. The catalogue stated that the portrait "has been in the family" since it was painted and "comes direct from the descendants".

[4] Clarke's purchase is recorded in an annotated 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 (NGA library).

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Douglas, Jacob
Hazlett, Douglas
Hazlett, Rebecca Douglas
Henkels, Stan. V.
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Stuart, Sarah Glen Douglas

Exhibition History

1823: Second Annual Exhibition in Peale's Baltimore Museum, of the Works of American Artists, ... in this City and its Vicinity, The Peale Museum, Baltimore, 1823, no. 127.

1921: Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 3.

1926: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1926, no. 11.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue.

1956: Rendezvous for Taste: Peale's Baltimore Museum, 1814-1830 [25th Anniversary Exhibition], The Peale Museum, Baltimore, 1956, no. 88.

1967: The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, 1967, no. 153.

Bibliography

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered.

1967: Elam, Charles H., ed. The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists. Exh. cat. Detroit Institute of Art, 1967: 109, no. 153, repro. 110.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 86, repro.

1972: Colle, Doriece. Collars...Stocks...Cravats: A History and Costume Dating Guide to Civilian Men's Neckpieces 1655-1900. Emmaus, Pennsylvania, 1972: 106, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 205, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 256, repro.

1998: Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 57-60, color repro.