Robert G. L. De Peyster, 1828

Inscription

lower right on letter: WALDO New York July 1828 / Robt. G. L. Depeyster

Provenance

Mrs. V. H. Fields, New York; (Ehrich Galleries, New York); purchased 2 February 1924 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1924

Exhibition of Portraits of Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, February 1924, no. 6.

1928

Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue, as R. G. Livingston De Peyster.

1940

Survey of American Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1940, unnumbered.

1943

American Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1943.

1947

American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1947.

1948

American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1948.

1950

American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1950.

1951

American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951.

1952

[Opening exhibition of new art gallery], Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1952-1953, no cat.

1953

American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.

1955

American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

Bibliography

1928

Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered.

1930

Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. Early American Portraiture. New York, 1930: 18.

1970

American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 118, repro.

1980

American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 253, repro.

1984

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 394, no. 562, color repro.

1992

American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 372, repro.

1998

Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 224-226, color repro.

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