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Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)

Study for "Portrait of Robert C. Ogden"

Details

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Study for "Portrait of Robert C. Ogden"
bears inscription 'Painted/by Tho*** Eakins 1904' (lower left)
oil on canvas
19¾ x 15½ in. (50.2 x 39.3 cm.)

Provenance

Frank Wilbert Stokes, New York.
Gunvor Bull-Teilman, New York, acquired from the above, 1955.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, acquired from the above, 1962.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1966.

Literature

G. Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York, 1974, n.p., no. 96.
P.D. Rosenzweig, The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1977, p. 197, no. 108, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The present work is a study for Robert C. Ogden (oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in., private collection), which sold at Christie's, New York on May 20, 2009, lot 128.

Eakins painted this portrait of Robert C. Ogden in 1904, a year in which he produced several other superb portraits including those of William R. Hallowell, Mrs. Edith Mahon and Samuel Myers. Ogden was a merchant, philanthropist, and educational worker who was also involved with the Union Theological Seminary. Reflecting on his life, friends noted they found in him "sagacity and moral strength." ("Honor the Memory of Robert C. Ogden," New York Times, 27 October 1913, n.p.)

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