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Portrait of a Man
Mather Brown (American, 1761–1831)
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.6 x 63.2 cm (29 3/4 x 24 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Eben Howard Gay
Accession Number28.443
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceCollection of Parkhurst family [see note 1]. By 1924, William Lockett Agnew (d. about 1918), London; 1924, Agnew sale, London (?) [see note 2]. By 1928, Eben Howard Gay, Boston, MA; 1928, gift of Eben Howard Gay to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 19, 1928)
NOTES:
[1] Mrs. Parkhurst had a sale on July 19, 1884, but unable to locate copy of catalogue
[2] William Lockett Agnew died about 1918; on June 7, 1918 Agnew's had a sale of pictures that they had inherited from him; after Mrs. William Lockett Agnew's death there were two sales, one on March 27, 1922 of prints and one on June 15, 1923 of paintings; this picturewas not in any of these sales and thereis no other William Lockett Agnew sale listed on SCIPIO
NOTES:
[1] Mrs. Parkhurst had a sale on July 19, 1884, but unable to locate copy of catalogue
[2] William Lockett Agnew died about 1918; on June 7, 1918 Agnew's had a sale of pictures that they had inherited from him; after Mrs. William Lockett Agnew's death there were two sales, one on March 27, 1922 of prints and one on June 15, 1923 of paintings; this picturewas not in any of these sales and thereis no other William Lockett Agnew sale listed on SCIPIO