Captain Charles Stewart

Provenance

The sitter's daughter, Delia Stewart Parnell; her son, Charles Stewart Parnell [1846-1891], Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland; possibly his daughter, Mrs. Olivia Parnell, Laragh Castle, Glendalough, Rathdrim, County Wicklow, Ireland; acquired July 1916 by Marie Louise Tudor Garland, Boston, Massachusetts;[1] her daughter, Hope Garland Ingersoll [Mrs. W. Fitch Ingersoll], Boston;[2] (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1947 by NGA. [1] She was the granddaughter of Frederick Tudor (1783-1864), a brother of Stewart's wife Delia Tudor. [2] She put the painting on long-term loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. _Selected Oil and Tempera Paintings & Three Pastels_, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1932: n.p., illustrated the portrait and in the index it is listed as "Lent by Hope Garland Ingersoll 1924."

Captain Charles Stewart

Sully, Thomas

1811-1812

Accession Number

1947.4.1

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 237 x 149.2 cm (93 5/16 x 58 3/4 in.) | framed: 266.4 x 178.4 x 11.4 cm (104 7/8 x 70 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Maude Monell Vetlesen