Portrait of a Man

ca. 1820

John Vanderlyn American, 1775-1852

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About the Artwork

Title Portrait of a Man

Artwork Date ca. 1820

Artist John Vanderlyn

Life Dates 1775-1852

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 27 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (69.2 × 57.8 cm) Framed: 36 × 31 5/8 × 2 7/8 inches (91.4 × 80.3 × 7.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of the Ford Foundation

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 47.118

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Provenance

the family of Robert Livingston (New York, USA).
Miss Cruger (Cruger's Island on the Hudson, New York, USA).
Louis Van Bergen (Coxsackie, New York, USA).
by 1926, John Levy Galleries (New York, New York, USA)
1926, purchased from the above March 30, 1926, M. Knoedler Co. (New York, New York, USA).
1926-1933, purchased from the above June 1926, Edsel B. Ford (Detroit, Michigan, USA), then identified as a portrait of Robert Fulton by Charles Willson Peale.
The Ford Foundation;
1947-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Richardson, E.P. “American Portrait Painting.” Bulletin of the DIA 14, 1 (October 1934): pp. 11-14.

The World of the Romantic Artist. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1944, no. 9.

Bulletin of the DIA 27, 3 (1948): p. 69.

Art Quarterly 11, 2 (Spring 1948): pp. 161-167.

Art Quarterly 11, 3 (Summer 1948): pp. 271-273.

Athearn, Robert G. The American Heritage New Illustrated History of the United States, Vol. 5. New York, 1963, p. 383 (ill.).

The Works of John Vanderlyn from Tammany to the Capitol. Exh. cat., University Art Gallery, State University of New York. Binghamton, 1970, pp. 110, 148-149, no. 85.

The Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings, Vol. 1. Detroit, 1987.

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