Provenance
Recorded as from New York State. General Schuyler Hamilton [1822-1903], New York City; his grandson, Schuyler Hamilton, city unknown, by whom sold to (Harry Stone Gallery, New York), by 1941;[1] sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
[1] The information about the Hamiltons originated with Stone, who relayed it to Colonial Williamsburg when he offered the portrait there in 1941 (photocopy of letter from Stone to James L. Cogar, curator, Colonial Williamsburg, 13 March 1941, in NGA curatorial files; courtesy of Richard Miller, associate curator, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia). Stone apparently did not pass the information along to the Garbisches when they purchased the painting. General Schuyler Hamilton's grandfather was Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), George Washington's secretary of the treasury from 1789-1795, while Griffin was serving in Congress.
Exhibition History
- 1954
- American Primitive Paintings from the Colleciton of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 34.
- 1955
- American Primitive Pantings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
- 1978
- The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.
- 1980
- Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Lisbon, Portugal, 1980-1982.
- 1989
- The First Federal Congress 1789-1791, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 1989: 268, repro.
Bibliography
- 1970
- American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 50, repro.
- 1980
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 146, repro.
- 1989
- The First Federal Congress 1789-1791. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 1989: 268, repro.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 161, repro.
- 1992
- Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 92-95, color repro. 93.
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