Dr. John Edwards Holbrook

Daniel Huntington1857

Details

Title: Dr. John Edwards Holbrook
Creator: Daniel Huntington
Date Created: 1857
Physical Dimensions: overall: 72 x 58.9 cm (28 3/8 x 23 3/16 in.) framed: 94.6 x 81.9 x 7 cm (37 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Provenance: The artist, New York; his estate, in 1908.[1] (sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 26 November 1920, no. 90); Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA. [1] _Memorial Exhibition of Works by the Late Daniel Huntington, N.A._, Exh. cat. Century Association, New York, 1908: 5. [2] The name of the auction house and the date of the purchase by Clarke 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).
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on canvas

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