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Commodore Thomas Macdonough
Gilbert Stuartc. 1815/1818
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 261-263, 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: Commodore Thomas Macdonough
- Creator: Gilbert Stuart
- Date Created: c. 1815/1818
- Physical Dimensions: overall (original fabric): 72.5 x 57.1 cm (28 9/16 x 22 1/2 in.) support: 72.5 x 58.5 cm (28 9/16 x 23 1/16 in.) framed: 100.3 x 88.9 x 6.7 cm (39 1/2 x 35 x 2 5/8 in.)
- Provenance: The sitter's son, James Edward Fisher MacDonough [1825-1849], Montclair, New Jersey; his brother, Charles Shaler MacDonough [1818-1871], Middletown, Connecticut; his brother, Augustus Rodney MacDonough [1820-1907], Middletown, Connecticut;[1] his nephew, Rodney MacDonough [1863-1935], Brookline, Massachusetts; his son, Charles Vance MacDonough [b. 1907], Wellesley, Massachusetts;[2] (M. Knoedler & Co. New York); sold 21 January 1937 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA. [1] Lucy Macdonough Reade, Rodney Macdonough's sister, provided this provenance to Elizabeth Clare, M. Knoedler & Co., March 1948 (transcription, NGA curatorial file); her information was from Rodney Macdonough, _Life of Commodore Thomas Macdonough, U.S. Navy_, Boston, 1909. Augustus Rodney Macdonough owned the portrait by 1853, when he lent it to the _Washington Exhibition_ in New York. [2] Charles Vance Macdonough said that the painting became his property in 1935; letter to Elizabeth Clare, 22 April 1948 (NGA curatorial file).
- Medium: oil on wood
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