About the Artwork
John Quincy Adams
1850
George Caleb Bingham
1811-1879
American
Unknown
Oil on wood panel
Unframed: 10 × 7 7/8 inches (25.4 × 20 cm) Framed: 15 × 13 1/8 × 3 1/2 inches (38.1 × 33.3 × 8.9 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Mrs. Walter O. Briggs
53.153
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, on back, in ink: ...ohn...Adams | Painted in his 81st year.. (aetat 8.. | Taken By Bingham of Washington | and presented to Rev. Jeremiah Twitchell of | New Orleans | La. Inscribed, on back, in pencil: Portrait of J. Q. Adams | taken in his 81st year | By Bingham | of Missouri | Aug 4 1850 | and presented to Rev Jer..... Tu....chell | of N... O...
Provenance
Reverend Jer. Twitchell (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA).Oliver R. Barrett (Chicago,Illinois, USA, "the famous collection of Lincolniana.");
his son, Roger W. Barrett.
1953, Parke-Bernet Galleries (New York, New York, USA);
1953, dealer, William Macbeth (New York, New York, USA);
1953, Mrs. Walter O. Briggs (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Rusk, Fern Helen. George Caleb Bingham, the Missouri Artist. Jefferson City, MO, 1917, p. 29. [Rusk reproduces the Rollins version of the portrait--pl. XVI.]
Rollins, C.B. “The Letter of George Caleb Bingham.” Missouri Historical Review (October 1937): p. 166.
Christ-Janer, A. George Caleb Bingham of Missouri. New York, 1940, p. 33.
“Accessions of American and Canadian Museum, April-June 1953. Renaissance to Modern Times: American Painting.” The Art Quarterly 16, 4 (Winter 1953): p. 348 (fig. 3).
“Bingham Portrait at Detroit.” Antiques 64 (October 1953): p. 310.
McDermott, John Francis. “Bingham’s Portrait of John Quincy Adams Dated.” Art Quarterly 19, 4 (Winter 1956): pp. 412-414 (ill.).
___________________. George Caleb Bingham, River Portraitist. Norman, OK, 1959, pp. 43-45, 427, no. 87 (pl. 15)
Bloch, E. Maurice. George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 and 2. Berkeley, 1967, p. 81, no. 211 (pl. 35).
_____________. George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist. Berkeley, 1967, pp. 57-60 (pl. 35).
Oliver, Andrew. Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife. Cambridge, MA, 1970, pp. 231-235 (fig. 99).
__________. “Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife.” Antiques 98 (November 1970): p. 753.
Henshaw, Julia, ed. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1. New York, 1991, pp. 35-37 (ill.).
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George Caleb Bingham, John Quincy Adams, 1850, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Walter O. Briggs, 53.153.
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