Provenance
The sitter's granddaughter, Augusta Elizabeth Borland Greene [Mrs. William Parkinson Greene, 1795-1861], Norwich, Connecticut; her husband, William Parkinson Greene [1795-1864], Norwich, Connecticut; their son, Gardiner Greene [1822-1895], Norwich, Connecticut; his son, Gardiner Greene [1851-1925], Norwich, Connecticut;[1] sold to (André E. Rueff, New York) by 2 May 1921, when it was purchased 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
- 1922
- Portraits Painted in the United States by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, February 1922, no. 8, as by Gilbert Stuart.
- 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 by Gilbert Stuart.
- 1967
- Loan for display with permanent collection, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1967-1980.
- 1985
- Extended loan for use by Secretary George P. Shultz, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1985-1989.
- 1991
- Extended loan for use by Justice David Souter, The Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1991-2009.
Bibliography
- 1879
- Mason, George C. The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart. New York, 1879: 216.
- 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: 46, no. 373.
- 1926
- Park 1926, 484, note.
- 1928
- Barker, Virgil. "Portraiture in America Before 1876." The Arts 13, no. 5 (May 1928): 276-277.
- 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 by Gilbert Stuart.
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 110, repro.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 239, repro.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 359, repro.
- 1995
- Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 289-291, repro. 290.
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