Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Daniel Huntington1866

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Title: Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Creator: Daniel Huntington
Date Created: 1866
Physical Dimensions: overall: 68.2 x 56.2 cm (26 7/8 x 22 1/8 in.) framed: 80.3 x 70.2 x 6.7 cm (31 5/8 x 27 5/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Provenance: The artist, New York; his estate, in 1908.[1] George D. Smith.[2] (sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 26 November 1920, no. 84); Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[3] 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: 7. [2] Anna Wells Rutledge and James W. Lane ("110 Paintings in the Clarke Collection," typescript, 1952: 125, copy in NGA curatorial files) note that Knoedler & Co. records listed "George D. Smith" as a previous owner, without providing further details or dates. [3] 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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