Elisha Doane

American 18th Centuryc. 1783

Details

Title: Elisha Doane
Creator: American 18th Century
Date Created: c. 1783
Physical Dimensions: overall: 101.7 x 84.2 cm (40 1/16 x 33 1/8 in.)
Provenance: The sitter's son, James Cutler Doane [1788-1878], Cohasset, MA;[1] his granddaughter, Harriet Doane [b. 1866], Southboro, MA; sold around 1920 to (Dwight Prouty, Boston);[2] (Brooks Reed);[3] (Israel Sack, New York);[4] (James P. Labey, New York).[5] (sale, 16 February 1929, James P. Silo, New York, no. 333); Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[6] gift 1943 to NGA. [1] For his dates see Alfred Alder Doane, _The Doane Family: Deacon John Doane, of Plymouth; Doctor John Done, of Maryland; and their Descendants_, Boston, 1902, 422-423. [2] Letter from Harriet Doane to James W. Lane, 6 September 1948 (NGA curatorial file). John Howland described Prouty as a collector; letter, 18 September 1940, Frick Art Reference Library. [3] Letter from John Howland, dated 17 August 1947, to Chester Dale (NGA curatorial file). [4] This information is found on an undated note possibly made when the painting was in the Chester Dale collection (NGA curatorial file). [5] National Gallery of Art, _Paintings other Than French in the Chester Dale Collection_, Washington, 1965, 26. Labey was described as a dealer in his obituary in _The New York Times_, 27 October 1946, 62. [6] Two labels on the stretcher give the address of Silo's auction house as 40 East 45th Street, New York, and the lot number as 2792-2.
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on canvas

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