William Clark Frazer

Provenance

The sitter [1776-1838]; probably his son, Reah Frazer [1804-1856]; the sitter's granddaughter, Susan Carpenter Frazer [d. 1930], Lancaster, Pennsylvania, by 1912; sold March 1923 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA. [1] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).

William Clark Frazer

Eichholtz, Jacob

c. 1830

Accession Number

1947.17.3

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.) | framed: 85.7 x 98.4 x 7.3 cm (33 3/4 x 38 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection