Henry Clay
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Materials
- Canvas
Oil - Subject
- Henry Clay
- Dimensions
- 61 x 50.8cm (24 x 20")
- Accession #
- NPG.66.27
- Object #
- 4556
- Credit Lines
- George Reuling, Baltimore; (Merwin Galleries, New York,) 1914. International Business Machines Corporation, New York; gift to Smithsonian 1961; transferred from NCFA to NPG 1966. Note: Inscription on reverse “Henry Clay by Rembrandt Peale/Dr. Reulings Collection/ formerly in Peale Museum, Philad—“ corresponds with no. 8 in Catalogue of Early American Paintings of Historical Importance and Superior Quality belonging to George Reuling, M.D., of Baltimore Maryland, auction catalog of The Merwin Galleries, New York, April 7, 1914. The portrait is related in some way to portrait[s?] of Clay by James Reid Lambdin. See Thomas B. Clarke catalog 1919, no. 13; Huntington Museum, no. 19.7 Previous Owner: Provenance uncertain before 1914; sold to Merwin Galleries 1914; IBM Corporation; Gift to Smithsonian 1962.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of the International Business Machines Corporation to the Smithsonian Institution, 1962
- Partner URL
- http://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.66.27
- Linked Data URI
- npg:object/4556
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