117.2 x 99.7 x 10.6cm (46 1/8 x 39 1/4 x 4 3/16") 89.5 x 71.8cm (35 1/4 x 28 1/4")
Accession #
NPG.75.3
Object #
18980
Credit Lines
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of an anonymous donor Provenance: Hanson K. Corning, New York; Ephraim L. Corning, Geneva, Switzerland; Hanson K. Corning; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, subject to life interest in the donor’s niece Marguerite D. Velay [Mrs. Maxime Velay]; The Metropolitan Museum; sold 1975 to NPG Note: Albert Ten Eyck Gardner and Stuart P Feld, American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art I. [1965], 139-140. Rembrandt Peale to William Spencer, March 30, 1853, mentions a porthole Washington painted for Mr. Corning. Ms. Washington National Cathedral. Curatorial file NPG.