Provenance
Bequeathed by the sitter [d. 1865], Washington, D.C., to her step-niece, Adelaide Thomason Talbot [Mrs. Isham Talbot, 1799/1800-1873], Washington, D.C.;[1] her daughter, Mary Louisa Talbot, Kentucky.[2] Virginia Collins Miller [Mrs. Thomas Miller, 1809-1892], Washington, D.C.;[3] her daughter, Anna Thornton Miller Murray [Mrs. Sterling Murray, 1836-1917], Leesburg, Va.[4] Sold 4 January 1922 on behalf of an unidentified descendant by (Mary H. Sully, Brooklyn, New York) to (Art House, Inc., New York);[5] Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection on 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1922
- Portraits Painted in the United States by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, February 1922, no. 7.
- 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.
- 1943
- American Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1943.
- 1944
- Gilbert Stuart: Portraits Lent by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1944-1945, no. 17
- 1947
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1947.
- 1948
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1948.
- 1949
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1949.
- 1950
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1950.
- 1951
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951.
- 1952
- Woodlawn Plantation, Woodlawn, Virginia, 1952, no cat.
- 1953
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.
- 1955
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
- 1956
- American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956.
- 1960
- American Painters of the South, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1960, no. 32.
- 1970
- Extended loan for use by Blair House, Washington, D.C., 1970-1976.
- 1976
- Extended loan for use by The Octagon House, Washington, D.C., 1976-1992.
- 2012
- 1812: A Nation Emerges, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 2012-2013, no. 36, repro.
Bibliography
- n.d.
- Thornton, Anna Maria. Diaries, 1793-1863. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- 1879
- Mason, George C. The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart. New York, 1879: 269.
- 1880
- "Portraits Painted by Stuart...taken from Mason's Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart." In Exhibition of Portraits Painted by Gilbert Stuart. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1880: 58, no. 615.
- 1907
- "Diary of Mrs. William Thornton 1800-1863." Records of the Columbia Historical Society 10 (1907): 88-226.
- 1915
- Clark, Allen. "Dr. and Mrs. William Thornton." Records of the Columbia Historical Society 18 (1915): repro. opp. 150.
- 1926
- Park 1926, 754, no. 840.
- 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.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 106, repro., as Mrs. William Thornton.
- 1973
- Mount, Charles Merrill. "Gilbert Stuart in Washington; with a Catalogue of His Portraits Painted between December 1803 and July 1805." Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C. 48 (1973): 89, repro. 91, 127.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 236, repro., as Mrs. William Thornton.
- 1981
- Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: 67, repro. 68.
- 1990
- Carson, Barbara G. Ambitious Appetites: Dining, Behavior, and Patterns of Consumption in Federal Washington. Washington, D.C., 1990: repro. 77.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 353, repro., as Mrs. William Thornton.
- 1995
- Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 243-246, repro. 245.
- 2004
- Barratt, Carrie Rebora, and Ellen G. Miles. Gilbert Stuart. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Mus. of Art, New York; Natl. Gal. of Art, Washington, D.C. (for the Natl. Port. Gal.). New York, New Haven, and London, 2004: 239, 243, 254, 258-260, 264, fig. 145.
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