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The image shows the upper half of a man's body in a formal, seated pose. He is facing slightly to his right, with his head turned towards the viewer. The man has short, dark brown hair, a smooth complexion, well-defined eyebrows, and a serious expression. He is dressed in a dark jacket with gold buttons, over a high-collared white shirt with a ruffled front. The background is a dark, neutral color.
National Gallery of Art · Painting
Augustus Fielding Hawkins
Matthew Harris Jouett
- Date
- c. 1820
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- overall: 71 x 53.5 cm (27 15/16 x 21 1/16 in.) framed: 91.1 x 78.1 cm (35 7/8 x 30 3/4 in.)
- Classification
- Painting
- Accession number
- 1942.8.6
- Credit line
- Andrew W. Mellon Collection
- Time span
- 1801 to 1825
- Department
- CAB
Subjects and terms
- painted surface
- American
- male
- portrait
- American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I [A-L]
- Hawkins, Augustus Fielding
Provenance
The sitter [1798-1876]; his son, Strother Hawkins [1830-1905]; his daughter, Harriot Leavy Hawkins;[1] sold 22 March 1920 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] 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 1942 to NGA. [1] Although legal ownership of the portrait never passed from the direct descendants, Augustus Fielding Hawkins' niece Mary Leavy took physical possession of it at an unknown date (possibly around 1905, when Strother Hawkins died). It was subsequently in the possession of her daughter Lizzie Leavy, who in 1917 turned it over to the rightful owner Harriot Leavy Hawkins; letter of 23 July 1920 from Harriot Hawkins (in NGA curatorial files). [2] According to Clarke catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).
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