James Monroe, National Portrait Gallery | American Art Collaborative

James Monroe

Dimensions: Stretcher
Width: 63.5 Centimeters
Depth: 2.5 Centimeters
Height: 76.2 Centimeters

Frame
Height: 90.1 Centimeters
Width: 77.1 Centimeters
Depth: 6.9 Centimeters

Accession #: NPG.2005.44
Object #: 97641
Credit Lines: Angeline Pickering Kneeland [Mrs. Henry Timothy Kneeland], New York; her daughters Edith Kneeland [d. 1964] and Vida Kneeland Pell [d. 1967], New York; her son Williamson Pell, Jr.; his widow Mrs. Williamson Pell, Jr.; sold in the mid-1970s by (Parke-Bernet 84) as unidentified subject; (Schillay & Rehs, New York); (Whitehall Antiques, Chapel Hill, N.C.); purchased 1978 by Mr. and Mrs. John L. Sanders Note: The Frick Art Reference Library recorded that Edith Kneeland said the painting came from a “Mrs. Glenny” who bequeathed it to her mother. The painting was consigned to Sotheby’s in 1970 by Williamson Pell, but was withdrawn from sale. See David Meschutt, “A Rediscovered Portrait of James Monroe by Chester Harding,” American Art Journal [198] 78-81.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of John L. and Ann Beal Sanders in honor of their children, Tracy Elizabeth Sanders Justus, Jane Nesbit Sanders, and William Hardy Sanders