William Berthelet, 1846

  • Robert S. Duncanson, American, 1821 - 1872

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
  • 38 3/4 × 33 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (98.4 × 85.4 × 8.9 cm)

Gift of William T. Berthelet

52.207

Signed on back of canvas: R S Duncan[illegible] 1846

Signed and dated with brush on back of canvas: R S Duncan[illegible] 1846

1846-83, Joseph Berthelet (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Berthelet family. William Thomas Berthelet [d. 1952]

1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Porter, J. A. "Robert S. Duncanson, Midwestern Romantic Realist." Art in America 39, no. 3 (Oct. 1951): 122-123, 148 (ill.). Ten Afro-American Artists of the Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., Howard University. Washington, D.C., 1967, p. 14. Robert S. Duncanson. Exh. cat., Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati, 1972, no. 3, p. 37. Gibson, A. H. Artists of Early Michigan. Detroit, 1975, p. 95 (ill.). Duncanson: A British-American Connection. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, North Carolina Central University. Durham, NC, no. 8.

Robert S. Duncanson, William Berthelet, 1846, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of William T. Berthelet, 52.207.