Leslie Pease Barnum

Frank Duveneck1876

Details

Title: Leslie Pease Barnum
Creator: Frank Duveneck
Date Created: 1876
Physical Dimensions: overall: 56 x 46 cm (22 1/16 x 18 1/8 in.) framed: 73.7 x 64.1 x 4.1 cm (29 x 25 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.)
Provenance: The sitter [1846-1915]; by inheritance to his sister, Louise Barnum Robbins, Adrian, Michigan; by inheritance 1918 to the sitter's niece, Mrs. Arthur L. Fuller, Chicago;[1] Richard Creifelds; sold 13 February 1919 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] his estate;[3] 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 1942 to NGA. [1] Letter of 29 May 1919 from E. N. Smith to Charles Harris, agent for Clarke (in NGA curatorial files), traces the descent from Barnum to Robbins to Fuller. [2] 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). specifies this work was sold to Clarke by R. Creifelds, presumably Richard Creifelds (1853 1939), an American artist whose work Clarke also collected. [3] "Auction Sales," _International Studio_ 99 (May 1931): 59.
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on canvas

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