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James P. Smith
Jacob Eichholtzc. 1835
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 Nineteenth Century, Part _I, pages 218-220, which is available as a free PDF at <u>https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-19th-century-part-1.pdf</u>
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Details
- Title: James P. Smith
- Creator: Jacob Eichholtz
- Date Created: c. 1835
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 75.5 x 63.5 cm (29 3/4 x 25 in.) framed: 101 x 87.6 x 5.1 cm (39 3/4 x 34 1/2 x 2 in.)
- Provenance: The sitter [c. 1803-1888], Philadelphia;[1] (his estate sale, Stan V. Henckels, Philadelphia, 14 December 1920, no. 91); Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; 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] Clarke collection research (in NGA curatorial files), gives Smith's birth date as 1804; Dale T. Johnson, _American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection_, Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990: 203, lists it as 1803; Rebecca J. Beal, _Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842_, Philadelphia, 1969: 223-224, dates it c. 1803.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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