Provenance
Misses Anna A., Helen C., and Elizabeth A. King, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, cousins of the sitter, by 1933.
Vincent A. Carroll, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1957.
Literature
L. Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work, New York, 1933, p. 192, no. 347 (as Mgr. James P. Turner).
S. Shendler, Eakins, Boston, Massachusetts, 1967, pp. 47-48, 92, illustrated.
“Art; Painting,” Time, August 15, 1969, p. 54.
G. Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York, 1974, pp. 253, 350, no. CL-329, illustrated.
W.H. Gerdts, “Thomas Eakins and the Episcopal Portrait: Archbishop William Henry Elder,” Arts Magazine, vol. 53, no. 9, May 1979, p. 154.
L. Goodrich, Thomas Eakins, vol. II, Washington, D.C., 1982, pp. 194, 215, 245, fig. 239, illustrated.
J. Wilmerding, ed., Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and the Heart of American Life, London, 1993, p. 177.
S.D. Kirkpatrick, The Revenge of Thomas Eakins, Binghamton, New York, 2006, pp. 471-472.
Exhibited
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Twelfth Annual Exhibition, April 30-June 30, 1908 (as Portrait of a Clergyman).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Thomas Eakins: Retrospective Exhibition, September 22-November 23, 1970, pp. 60, 71, no. 82, illustrated.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Museum, 1976.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Frank S. Schwarz & Son, November 20-December 15, 1978.
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