Lot 18: Charles Loring Elliott (American, 1812-1868)

Charles Loring Elliott (American, 1812-1868)
Portrait of Thomas Loraine McKenney
oil on canvas
30½ x 25¼ in. (77.5 x 64.1 cm.)
Painted in 1856.

New York, National Academy of Design, 1856, cat.no. 154.
Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, cat.no. 2817.
San Francisco, Department of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915, cat.no. 1797.
Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Indian Visitors to Washington, 12 January-18 February 1973.

H. Henderson, The Art Treasures of Washington, 1912, pp. 113, 116-117.
A. Burroughs, Limners and Likeness. Three Centuries of American Painting, 1936, fig. 131.
T. Bolton, 'A Catalogue of the Portraits painted by Charles Loring Elliott', in: Art Quarterly, V, Winter 1942, no. 79, pp. 72 and 91. D. Phillips, A Catalogue of the collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1966, I, p. 80.
T. Wilkins, Cherokee Tragedy, 1970, p. 184.
H.J. Viola, Thomas L. McKenny. Architect of America's Early Indian Policy: 1816-1830, 1974, illus. frontispiece.
F.P. Prucha, The Great Father, the United States Government and the American Indians 1984, I, fig. 13.
J.H. Buckley, William Clark. Indian Diplomat, 2008, p. 164.

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