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Simon Pease
Robert Fekec. 1749
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Simon Pease
- Creator: Robert Feke
- Date Created: c. 1749
- Physical Dimensions: painted surface: 127.32 × 101.92 cm (50 1/8 × 40 1/8 in.) overall: 128.27 × 102.55 cm (50 1/2 × 40 3/8 in.) framed: 144.78 × 119.38 × 5.08 cm (57 × 47 × 2 in.)
- Provenance: Commissioned c. 1749 by the sitter, Simon Pease [1695-1769], Newport; by descent in his family;[1] sold 1938 to (Albert Duveen, New York); sold by 1939 to Myron Charles Taylor [1874-1959], New York, and Locust Valley, Long Island; (his estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 3-5 November 1960, no. 296); purchased jointly by (Hirschl and Adler, Inc., New York) and (M. Knoedler and Co., New York); purchased 18 October 1965 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Documented in NGA curatorial files, particularly in a deposition by the last two family owners dated 5 March 1937, ownership of the painting passed from the sitter through the following family members: the sitter's son, Simon Pease, Jr., Newport; his widow, Catherine Winslow Pease [d. 1818, later Catherine W. Pease Malbone (Mrs. Francis Malbone)], Newport; her first husband's grand-nephew, Robert William Stoddard [1793-1838], Jamaica, Long Island; his sister, Hannah Stoddard Thompson [1784-1870, Mrs. Samuel W. Thompson], New York; her niece, Mary Elizabeth Stoddard Lewis (b. 1784, Mrs. James Thomas Lewis), Jamaica; her daughters, Mary Stoddard Lewis and Jennie Louise Lewis, Stratford, Connecticut.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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