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Stephen Van Rensselaer III
Gilbert Stuart1793/1795
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 Eighteenth Century_, pages 196-198, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
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- Title: Stephen Van Rensselaer III
- Creator: Gilbert Stuart
- Date Created: 1793/1795
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 91.7 x 71.3 cm (36 1/8 x 28 1/16 in.) framed: 113 x 92.7 x 6.7 cm (44 1/2 x 36 1/2 x 2 5/8 in.)
- Provenance: The sitter's son, William Patterson Van Rensselaer [1805-1872], New York; his son, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer [1845-1905]; his son, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer [1879-1949], New York;[1] sold 13 February 1919 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection on 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA. [1] Brief notices of Van Rensselaer's descendants are in William Richard Cutter, ed., _Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley_, 3 vols., New York, 1913, 1:11-12; for Kiliaen Van Rensselaer's date of death see his obituary in _The New York Times_, 24 August 1949, 25. [2] The name of the seller and the date of purchase 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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