About the Artwork
Young Man
between 1845 and 1850
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American
American
Oil on academy board
Unframed: 18 1/4 × 14 3/4 inches (46.4 × 37.5 cm) Framed: 24 3/4 × 21 1/4 × 1 3/4 inches (62.9 × 54 × 4.4 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Detroit News Nancy Brown Experience Column Picture Fund
35.104
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on verso: Presented to Secretary Daniel Edgar Sickles, London, 1855
Provenance
by 1855, Daniel Edgar Sickles (London, England)
by 1935, dealer, Gabriel Wells (New York, New York, USA)
1935-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Burroughs, Clyde H. “Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Rembrandt Peale.” Bulletin of the DIA, 15, 3 (December 1935): p. 39. [as Longfellow]
________________. “Paintings by Peales.” Bulletin of the DIA, 23, 7 (April 1944): p. 56. [as Longfellow]
Jensen, Oliver. “The Peales.” American Heritage, 6,3 (April 1955): p. 44. [as Longfellow]
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American, Young Man, between 1845 and 1850, oil on academy board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Detroit News Nancy Brown Experience Column Picture Fund, 35.104.
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