Captain Elisha Denison, c. 1790

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 86.4 x 68.9 cm (34 x 27 1/8 in.)

framed: 102.9 x 84.9 x 3.8 cm (40 1/2 x 33 7/16 x 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.62.26

Artists / Makers

The Denison Limner (painter) American, active c. 1790

Joseph Steward (painter) American, 1753 - 1822

Image Use

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Provenance

Recorded as from Connecticut. Descended in the family of the sitter. (Victor Spark, New York), by whom sold in 1947 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Denison family
Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Spark, Victor D.
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1954: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 20.

1955: American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955 (shown only two weeks and replaced).

Bibliography

1957: Little, Nina Fletcher. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection. Boston and Toronto, 1957: 100-101.

1966: Black, Mary, and Jean Lipman. American Folk Painting. New York, 1966: 20-21.

1972: Schloss, Christine Skeeles. The Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries: Postrevolutionary Portraiture in New England, 1775-1805. Exh. cat. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Va., 1972: 36.

1981: Harlow, Thompson R. "The Life and Trials of Joseph Steward." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 46 (October 1981): 111, 117, 126, 129.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 157, repro.

1992: Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 83, 86, color repro. 84.