National Gallery of Art

Artwork Details 

Title: Unidentified British Navy Officer
Dated: c. 1745
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: overall: 127.3 x 101.9 cm (50 1/8 x 40 1/8 in.) framed: 141.6 x 114.3 x 8.8 cm (55 3/4 x 45 x 3 7/16 in.)
Location: National Gallery of Art
City, State: Washington, D.C.
Provenance:
(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); purchased 2 March 1927 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; 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.