LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

29.25 in. (74.30 cm.) (height) by 23.50 in. (59.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Metropolitan Opera House, Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington, Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits and Relics, April-May, 1889, no. 238.

Literature:

G.C. Woodruff, letter to Secretary of the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, February 15, 1844. G.C. Woodruff, letter to Charles Hosmer, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, March 13, 1844. Metropolitan Opera House, Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington, Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits and Relics, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1889, p. 3, cat. no. 1. T. Sizer, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull, Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven, Connecticut, 1967, p. 83. I.B. Jaffe, John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution, New York, 1975, pp. 309-10.

Provenance:

The artist. Governor Oliver Wolcott, Jr., circa 1793. Dr. John Stoughton Wolcott, son of the above, Litchfield, Connecticut, by descent, 1833. Estate of the above. William Jay, circa 1844. Honorable John Jay II, 1858. Colonel William Jay, 1894. Mrs. Arthur Iselin, Katonah, New York, 1915. William Jay Iselin, 1953. Private collection, Missouri, circa 1990. Acquired by the present owner from the above.