About the Artwork
Reverend Gregory Townsend Bedell
1830
John Neagle
1796-1865
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 29 1/2 × 25 1/4 inches (74.9 × 64.1 cm) Framed: 35 7/8 × 30 3/4 × 3 inches (91.1 × 78.1 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
29.192
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: J. Neagle, 1830
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Provenance
the Bowen Family (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). 1929, Ehrich Galleries (New York, New York, USA). 1929-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Fielding, Mantle. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 140, no. 113.
Burroughs, Clyde H. “Early American Portraits at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” Art in America 17 (October 1929): pp. 267-268, 271.
_______________. “Portraits by John Neagle and Samuel F.B. Morse.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 10, 8 (May 1929): p. 104 (ill.).
Burroughs, Alan. Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting. Cambridge, MA, 1936, p. 134.
Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume I. New York, 1991, pp. 142-143 (ill.).
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John Neagle, Reverend Gregory Townsend Bedell, 1830, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 29.192.
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