About the Artwork
Major David Van Horne
ca. 1790
William Dunlap
1766-1839
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 30 1/4 × 24 1/4 inches (76.8 × 61.6 cm) Framed: 37 1/2 × 31 3/4 × 3 1/8 inches (95.3 × 80.6 × 7.9 cm)
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American Art before 1950
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
54.233
Public Domain
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Provenance
1892, Charles Isham (New York, USA).by 1917, Augustus Van Horne (Stuyvesant, New York, USA);
his son, A. Van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr..
1954, dealer, Victor D. Spark (New York, New York, USA);
1954-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bowen, Clarence Winthrop, ed. The History of the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as First President of the United States. New York, 1892, p. 537 (ill.). [as probably William Dunlap]
Coad, Oral Sumner. William Dunlap: A Study of his Life and Works and of his Place in Contemporary Culture. New York, 1917, p. 302, no. 19.
“Recent Acquisitions: An Album.” Bulletin of the DIA 34, 1 (1954-1955): p. 14.
Arts of the Young Republic: The Age of Dunlap 1783-1834. The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center. Chapel Hill, 1968, p. 58, no. 27 (ill.).
Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1: Works by Artists Born Before 1816. New York, 1991, p. 75 (ill).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
William Dunlap, Major David Van Horne, ca. 1790, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 54.233.
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