Portrait of a Young Man by John Wollaston
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Portrait of a Young Man

John Wollaston · 1749–52

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Private collection, England. Private collection, United States, by 1953; with Hills Jewelers, Piermont, NY, by November 1953 [Victor D. Spark papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, copy in curatorial object file]; sold with another Wollaston portrait (1953.462) to Victor D. Spark (1898–1991), Hirschl and Adler Gallery, and possibly Graham Gallery, New York, by November 1953 [Victor D. Spark papers, Archives of American Art, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Pictures on Exhibit, Dec. 1953, back cover (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 485 (ill.).
  • David R. Hanks, "American Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago," The Magazine Antiques 104 (Sept. 1973): 410 (ill).
  • Ulysses G. Dietz, American Art in The Newark Museum: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, (Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum, 1981), 397.

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