Commodore John Rodgers

John Wesley Jarvisc. 1814

Details

Title: Commodore John Rodgers
Creator: John Wesley Jarvis
Date Created: c. 1814
Physical Dimensions: overall: 91.2 x 71.1 cm (35 7/8 x 28 in.) framed: 120.7 x 100.3 x 10.8 cm (47 1/2 x 39 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.)
Provenance: Charlotte I. Bullus, New York; gift 1838 to Minerva Denison Rodgers [1784-1877], wife of the sitter, Washington, D.C.;[1] her daughter, Ann Minerva Rodgers Macomb [1824-1916], Washington, D.C.; her daughters, Nannie Rodgers Macomb [1864-1952] and Christina Livingston Macomb [-1945], Washington, D.C.;[2] gift 1943 to NGA. [1] Correspondence relating to the gift is found in an envelope marked "Jarvis Portrait," in the Rodgers Family Papers, ser. I, cont. 17, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. None of the correspondence makes specific mention of the artist; however, in a letter of 19 November 1838, to Minerva Rodgers, Charlotte Bullus writes, "The likeness has always been considered most excellent, and being an original one, is preferable to a copy." [2] Provenance information beginning with the ownership of Minerva Denison Rodgers was conveyed by Nannie Macomb and Christina Macomb to the Frick Art Reference Library, New York, in 1926.
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on canvas

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