LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

35.98 in. (91.40 cm.) (height) by 27.01 in. (68.60 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, The New York Public Library, Ar e We to Be a Nation?: The Making of the Federal Constitution, 1987, no. 114

Literature:

Lenox Library Guide to the Paintings, New York, 1877, p. 10. Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, Boston, Massachusetts, 1888, vo. I, p. 567. Charles Henry Hart, "Life Portraits of George Washington," McClure's Magazine, February 1897, p. 297. Handbook to The New York Public Library: Astor, Lennox and Tilden Foundations, New York, 1905 , no. 54, p. 33 . John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, The Life Portraits of Washington and Their Replicas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1931, "Portraits by James Peale," no. 3, pp. 119-22, 125-27. Theodore Bolton and Harry Lorin Binsse, "The Peale Portraits of Washington," Antiquarian, February 1931, p. 26. Gustave Eisen, Portraits of Washington, New York, 1932, vol. II, pp. 399-400 (as The Claypoole-Lenox). R.W. Hill and L. Stark, "Washingtonia in the New York Public Library," New York Public Library Bulletin, February 1957, p. 76. Promenade, New York, April-September 1987, pp. 33, 11, illustrated; also illustrated in color on the cover

Provenance:

David C. Claypoole (brother-in-law of the artist), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (sold: Estate of David C. Claypoole, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1850). James Lenox, New York (acquired at the above sale). The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations, 1876 (gift from the above; sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 30, 2005, lot 6, illustrated). Acquired by the present owner at the above sale