Stephen Collins Foster
- Creation Date
- c. 1856
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Materials
- Canvas
Oil - Subject
- Stephen Collins Foster
- Dimensions
- 77.8 x 64.1cm (30 5/8 x 25 1/4")
89.5 x 76.2 x 5.1cm (35 1/4 x 30 x 2")
- Accession #
- NPG.65.52
- Object #
- 3896
- Credit Lines
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Gallery of Art; gift of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1942
(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York); purchased 2 August 1921 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA; transferred 1965 to NPG. Note: “R.M. De Forest/ 8-2-21- $100,”Annotated copy of 1928 Clarke catalog, NGA library. Knoedler’s recorded that the portrait was painted for Firth, Pond & Co., Foster’s agents and publishers, and descended in the Firth family to John J. Firth, Bronxville, N.Y.
- Partner URL
- http://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.65.52
- Linked Data URI
- npg:object/3896
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