179.4 x 142.2 x 9.5cm (70 5/8 x 56 x 3 3/4") 157.5 × 119.4cm (62 × 47")
Accession #
NPG.65.48
Object #
54525
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 The artist. H.M. Pierce; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, PIttsburgh; gift to NGA 1942; transferred 1965 to NPG. Notes: The portrait was commissioned by Congress, but they reneged on payment in 1860; Healy retained it. Elizabeth Clare at Knoedler’s reported to NGA that previous owner was H.M Pierce, “whose father was a friend of the artist. G.P.A. Healy letters, Archives of American Art, for sitting and subsequent attempts for payment.
