GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The sculptural quality of the headdress and coiffure of this portrait of an inquisitive young woman is characteristic of the work of the Danish-born painter Christian Gullager, who immigrated to the United States from Copenhagen by 1786. This portrait was probably painted in Boston, where Gullager lived in the late 1780s and early 1790s. He later worked in New York and Philadelphia. Gullager is best known for having painted and sculpted George Washington, who sat for him in Boston and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Adapted from
William Keyse Rudolph, DMA label text, 2006
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c. 1790
Was not able to verify attribution. See collection records object file for the following correspondence:
Eleanor L. Jones and Charlotte Emans Moore
Email June 8, 2006 William Rudolph to Richard Saunders "The painting was brought in on consignment at Hirshl & Adler in September 1953 from someone named "Spiegel," and sold to Faith Bybee, Houston, TX, in November 1954. The attribution came with the consignment, and Hirshl & Adler published the painting as by Gullager in an ad in Antiques in June 1954, p. 6. In 1987, when the painting was first on loan to us before eventual gifting, Marvin Sadik saw a photograph and thought the painting was more likely Charles Peale Polk than Gullager; however, in 1992, Linda Crocker Simmons thought Polk was unlikely. That's where the matter was left."
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Gullager, Christian Amandus (American, born Denmark, 1759-1826)
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Place of origin: Boston (Massachusetts/United States): TGN: 7013445
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From 1992: Dallas Museum of Art, The Faith P. and Charles L. Bybee Collection, gift of Faith P. Bybee
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General Description
The sculptural quality of the headdress and coiffure of this portrait of an inquisitive young woman is characteristic of the work of the Danish-born painter Christian Gullager, who immigrated to the United States from Copenhagen by 1786. This portrait was probably painted in Boston, where Gullager lived in the late 1780s and early 1790s. He later worked in New York and Philadelphia. Gullager is best known for having painted and sculpted George Washington, who sat for him in Boston and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Adapted from
William Keyse Rudolph, DMA label text, 2006
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Notes
c. 1790
Was not able to verify attribution. See collection records object file for the following correspondence:
Eleanor L. Jones and Charlotte Emans Moore
Email June 8, 2006 William Rudolph to Richard Saunders "The painting was brought in on consignment at Hirshl & Adler in September 1953 from someone named "Spiegel," and sold to Faith Bybee, Houston, TX, in November 1954. The attribution came with the consignment, and Hirshl & Adler published the painting as by Gullager in an ad in Antiques in June 1954, p. 6. In 1987, when the painting was first on loan to us before eventual gifting, Marvin Sadik saw a photograph and thought the painting was more likely Charles Peale Polk than Gullager; however, in 1992, Linda Crocker Simmons thought Polk was unlikely. That's where the matter was left."
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Gullager, Christian Amandus (American, born Denmark, 1759-1826)
Cultures
Geography
Place of origin: Boston (Massachusetts/United States): TGN: 7013445
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
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From 1992: Dallas Museum of Art, The Faith P. and Charles L. Bybee Collection, gift of Faith P. Bybee
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