Rio de Janeiro Bay

Martin Johnson Heade1864

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Title: Rio de Janeiro Bay
Creator: Martin Johnson Heade
Date Created: 1864
Physical Dimensions: overall: 45.5 x 91.1 cm (17 15/16 x 35 7/8 in.) framed: 70.2 x 115.9 x 12.1 cm (27 5/8 x 45 5/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
Provenance: John H. Lidgerwood [d. 1956], Morristown, New Jersey;[1] (his estate sale, O. Rundle Gilbert, Morristown, New Jersey, 1956); (Victor Spark and Graham Galleries, New York); purchased 27 January 1965 by NGA. [1] An undated note in NGA curatorial files from William P. Campbell states: "The Graham Galleries said NGA 1941 [former accession number for 1965.2.1] came `from a private home in New Jersey.'" When Heade's small oil entitled _Harbor in Brazil_ was consigned to Sotheby's, New York, for auction, its owner informed the auction house that it had come from a house called "Speedwell" in Morristown and that the National Gallery's painting had been in the same collection (information provided by Dara Mitchell, American Paintings department, Sotheby's, in a telephone conversation; memorandum of 10 June 1992, in NGA curatorial files). See also _American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture_, Sotheby's, New York, 27 May 1992, no. 6. "Speedwell" was founded by Alfred Vail (1807-1859), who coinvented the telegraph with Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872); John H. Lidgerwood was Vail's grandnephew.
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on canvas

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