Provenance
(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York);[1] purchased 2 March 1927 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] 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 1947 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1928
- A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1928, no. 15, as Capt. Archibald Kennedy.
- 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, as Capt. Archibald Kennedy.
- 1970
- Two Centuries of American Portraits, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington; Paducah Art Gallery, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 1970, unnumbered
- 1972
- Loan for display with permanent collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 1972-1974.
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, as Capt. Archibald Kennedy.
- 1931
- Bolton, Theodore, and Harry Lorin Binsse. "Wollaston, An Early American Portrait Manufacturer" The Antiquarian 16 (June 1931): 50.
- 1952
- Rutledge and Lane 1952, 64.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 124, repro., as Lieutenant Archibald Kennedy (?).
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 260, repro., as Lieutenant Archibald Kennedy (?).
- 1981
- Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: 16-17, color repro. 41.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 384, repro., as Lieutenant Archibald Kennedy (?).
- 1995
- Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 352-355, color repro. 353.
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