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Mr. Motte
Jeremiah Theusc. 1760
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Mr. Motte
- Creator: Jeremiah Theus
- Date Created: c. 1760
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.) framed: 93.4 x 80.7 x 7 cm (36 3/4 x 31 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: Charles Henry Hart [1847-1918], New York; his widow Mrs. Charles Henry Hart; sold 29 May 1920 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] 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 1947 to NGA. [1] 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). Mrs. Hart provided the information that her husband had owned the painting. Hart, a lawyer, was a writer, dealer, and collector of American art; _Dictionary American Biography_, New York, 1944-1988, 4:355-356.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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