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Captain Joseph Anthony
Gilbert Stuart1794
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication _American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century_, pages 199-201, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
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- Title: Captain Joseph Anthony
- Creator: Gilbert Stuart
- Date Created: 1794
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 91.5 x 71 cm (36 x 27 15/16 in.) framed: 123.8 x 103.2 cm (48 3/4 x 40 5/8 in.)
- Provenance: The sitter's great-grandson, Thomas Duncan Smith [1812-1880], Philadelphia;[1] his widow, Mrs. Thomas Duncan Smith, Philadelphia;[2] their son, William Rudolph Smith [d. 1922], Philadelphia;[3] sold by the trustees of his estate on 30 January 1923 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[4] 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. [1] This portrait is first recorded in Museum of Fine Arts, "Portraits Painted by Stuart...taken from Mason's _Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart," _Exhibition of Portraits Painted by Gilbert Stuart, Boston, 1880, 29, no. 20, as being owned by Thomas D. Smith. Lawrence Park, _Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of his Works, with an Account of his Life by John Hill Morgan and an Appreciation by Royal Cortissoz_, 4 vols., New York, 1926, 105 106, proposed that the provenance was from Joseph Anthony, Jr. (1762 1814), Philadelphia, the son of the sitter, to his daughter Eliza Anthony Smith (Mrs. William Rudolph Smith, 1789 1821), and after her husband's death in 1868, to their son Thomas D. Smith. [2] _Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits_, Exh. cat., The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1887, as lent by "Mrs. Thomas D. Smith." [3] "J. Rudolph Smith" is listed as the owner in "Stuart," _Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs_, vol. 7, part 73, Boston, 1906, 39; Mantle Fielding, "Paintings by Gilbert Stuart Not Mentioned in Mason's Life of Stuart," _Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography_ 38 (July 1914), 315, lists "William R. Smith" as the owner. [4] A letter from Gordon Howard of Frank Partridge, Inc., New York, dated 23 January 1923, to Thomas B. Clarke, discusses the condition and price of the painting after it was offered for sale at Maclees' Gallery in Philadelphia (NGA curatorial file). The name of the seller and the date of purchase are recorded in a 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) annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).
- Medium: oil on canvas
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