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| Keywords: Edward Savage - The Washington Family - Google Art Project.jpg Assessments 1 The Washington Family LargeImage - 1789 1796 Massachusetts Princeton 1761 Massachusetts Princeton 1817 Edward male 27292754 Savage American 1761 - 1817 /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/artwork/the-washington-family-edward-savage/27400678/ 561 Edward Savage painter /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/ National Gallery of Art Washington DC 507112 http //www nga gov/ 8/13/2012 2 01 29 PM /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/artwork/the-washington-family-edward-savage/27400678/ 1789 American portrait family oil on canvas The artist;1 purchased from his estate 14 November 1820 by Ethan Allen Greenwood 1779-1856 Boston;2 sold 1839 to Moses Kimball 1809-1895 Boston with the contents of the New England Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts;3 sold December 1891 to Samuel P Avery Jr New York ;4 sold 1892 to William Frederick Havemeyer 1850-1913 New York 5 National Democratic Club New York;6 sold 15 December 1922 to Art House Inc New York ;7 Thomas B Clarke 1848-1931 New York; 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 1940 to NGA 1 Ethan Allen Greenwood John R Penniman and William M S Doyle Inventory of the estate of Edward Savage late of Princeton in the County of Worcester deceased lying and being in Boston in the County of Suffolk 12 September 1817 no 51 with his paintings of Christopher Columbus and Liberty This inventory of the contents of Savage's museum in Boston is filed with the inventory of his property in Princeton and his administrator's accounts at the Worcester County Probate Court Worcester Massachusetts photocopy NGA curatorial file photocopy courtesy of Georgia Barnhill Andrew W Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts American Antiquarian Society Worcester series A case 52130; see Louisa Dresser Edward Savage 1761-1817 <i>Art in America</i> 40 no 4 Autumn 1952 157-158 n 5 and Georgia Brady Barnhill 'Extracts from the Journals of Ethan A Greenwood' Portrait Painter and Museum Proprietor <i>Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society</i> 103 part 1 October 1993 97 2 Bill of sale signed by Savage's son Edward Savage Jr 1795-1858 Boston administrator of his father's estate; Ethan Allen Greenwood Papers American Antiquarian Society photocopy NGA curatorial file courtesy of Georgia Barnhill The price of 1 000 was for One Marble Statue of the Venus de Medicis and the large Painting of the Washington Family On Greenwood see Barnhill 1993 91-178 3 Watkins 1917 127-128; according to Ryan 1915 1-2 Moses Kimball 1809-1895 bought a large part of the collection of the New England museum when he was about thirty and opened the new Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts in 1841 A draft of a document written by Greenwood in 1839 which would have transferred ownership of the museum to Robert Gould Shaw and the Reverend Edward T Taylor is in the Ethan Allen Greenwood Papers American Antiquarian Society quoted in Barnhill 1993 101 This transfer did not take place 4 Letter from Moses Kimball to Samuel P Avery Jr 28 December 1891 confirming the sale in <i>Savage's Painting of Washington and Family</i> album NGA library Kimball said that the painting which he owned for more than fifty years came to him in the collection of the New England Museum that I purchased Also in the album is a letter of 23 November 1892 from Charles H Savage the artist's grandson to Avery giving the history of the painting 5 An Old Portrait of the Washington Family New York Sun 31 December 1892 in <i>Savage's Painting of Washington and Family</i> album NGA library recounted the painting's history From this dismal seclusion in the Boston Museum the old painting was recovered by Mr Samuel P Avery Jr about a year ago and after a good scrubbing with soap and water and solvent it was brought to this city Mr William F Havemeyer has recently bought it to add to his extensive Museum of Washingtoniana Havemeyer owned the painting by 3 January 1893 when collector Thomas B Clarke wrote to Charles Henry Hart asking whether it would be an appropriate loan for the exhibition of retrospective art they were planning for the World's Columbian Exposition; they were on the advisory committee New York Public Library Papers of the Columbian Exposition Archives of American Art Washington D C ; ultimately the painting was not included in the 1893 exhibition Havemeyer's dates are in <i>Who Was Who in America</i> Historical volume 1942 1 535 6 Charles Henry Hart <i>Edward Savage Painter and Engraver and his Unfinished Copper-plate of The Congress Voting Independence </i> Boston 1905 10 7 The name of the seller and the date of purchase are recorded in a copy of <i>Portraits by Early American Painters of the Seventeenth Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B Clarke</i> Exh cat Philadelphia Museum of Art 1928 annotated with information from files of M Knoedler Co NY copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library The receipt for payment by Art House Inc dated 15 December 1922 is signed on behalf of the National Democratic Club by F Newlin Price NGA curatorial file 213 6 27400678 False 1796 1789-1796 overall 8/20/2012 7 33 52 PM 1940 1 2 http //www nga gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f object 561 National Gallery of Art Washington DC Andrew W Mellon Collection Painting 1780 1800 w284 x h213 cm 1789-1796 False 1 34031413612565 Object the-washington-family-edward-savage The Washington Family w 284 2 oil on canvas The artist;1 purchased from his estate 14 November 1820 by Ethan Allen Greenwood 1779-1856 Boston;2 sold 1839 to Moses Kimball 1809-1895 Boston with the contents of the New England Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts;3 sold December 1891 to Samuel P Avery Jr New York ;4 sold 1892 to William Frederick Havemeyer 1850-1913 New York 5 National Democratic Club New York;6 sold 15 December 1922 to Art House Inc New York ;7 Thomas B Clarke 1848-1931 New York; 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 1940 to NGA 1 Ethan Allen Greenwood John R Penniman and William M S Doyle Inventory of the estate of Edward Savage late of Princeton in the County of Worcester deceased lying and being in Boston in the County of Suffolk 12 September 1817 no 51 with his paintings of Christopher Columbus and Liberty This inventory of the contents of Savage's museum in Boston is filed with the inventory of his property in Princeton and his administrator's accounts at the Worcester County Probate Court Worcester Massachusetts photocopy NGA curatorial file photocopy courtesy of Georgia Barnhill Andrew W Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts American Antiquarian Society Worcester series A case 52130; see Louisa Dresser Edward Savage 1761-1817 <i>Art in America</i> 40 no 4 Autumn 1952 157-158 n 5 and Georgia Brady Barnhill 'Extracts from the Journals of Ethan A Greenwood' Portrait Painter and Museum Proprietor <i>Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society</i> 103 part 1 October 1993 97 2 Bill of sale signed by Savage's son Edward Savage Jr 1795-1858 Boston administrator of his father's estate; Ethan Allen Greenwood Papers American Antiquarian Society photocopy NGA curatorial file courtesy of Georgia Barnhill The price of 1 000 was for One Marble Statue of the Venus de Medicis and the large Painting of the Washington Family On Greenwood see Barnhill 1993 91-178 3 Watkins 1917 127-128; according to Ryan 1915 1-2 Moses Kimball 1809-1895 bought a large part of the collection of the New England museum when he was about thirty and opened the new Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts in 1841 A draft of a document written by Greenwood in 1839 which would have transferred ownership of the museum to Robert Gould Shaw and the Reverend Edward T Taylor is in the Ethan Allen Greenwood Papers American Antiquarian Society quoted in Barnhill 1993 101 This transfer did not take place 4 Letter from Moses Kimball to Samuel P Avery Jr 28 December 1891 confirming the sale in <i>Savage's Painting of Washington and Family</i> album NGA library Kimball said that the painting which he owned for more than fifty years came to him in the collection of the New England Museum that I purchased Also in the album is a letter of 23 November 1892 from Charles H Savage the artist's grandson to Avery giving the history of the painting 5 An Old Portrait of the Washington Family New York Sun 31 December 1892 in <i>Savage's Painting of Washington and Family</i> album NGA library recounted the painting's history From this dismal seclusion in the Boston Museum the old painting was recovered by Mr Samuel P Avery Jr about a year ago and after a good scrubbing with soap and water and solvent it was brought to this city Mr William F Havemeyer has recently bought it to add to his extensive Museum of Washingtoniana Havemeyer owned the painting by 3 January 1893 when collector Thomas B Clarke wrote to Charles Henry Hart asking whether it would be an appropriate loan for the exhibition of retrospective art they were planning for the World's Columbian Exposition; they were on the advisory committee New York Public Library Papers of the Columbian Exposition Archives of American Art Washington D C ; ultimately the painting was not included in the 1893 exhibition Havemeyer's dates are in <i>Who Was Who in America</i> Historical volume 1942 1 535 6 Charles Henry Hart <i>Edward Savage Painter and Engraver and his Unfinished Copper-plate of The Congress Voting Independence </i> Boston 1905 10 7 The name of the seller and the date of purchase are recorded in a copy of <i>Portraits by Early American Painters of the Seventeenth Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B Clarke</i> Exh cat Philadelphia Museum of Art 1928 annotated with information from files of M Knoedler Co NY copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library The receipt for payment by Art House Inc dated 15 December 1922 is signed on behalf of the National Democratic Club by F Newlin Price NGA curatorial file American portrait family special url_id -AFSnvzAlFw44A PD-old-100-1923 1817 Google Art Project works by Edward Savage The Washington Family 1789 �1796 by Edward Savage | ||||
