id:			100489
accession number:	1919.910
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.910
updated:		2025-02-08 22:50:46.144000

Baron FitzGibbon, 1789. Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828). Oil on canvas; framed: 272 x 181 x 11 cm (107 1/16 x 71 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.); unframed: 245 x 154 cm (96 7/16 x 60 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund 1919.910

title:				Baron FitzGibbon
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creation date:			1789
creation date earliest:		1789
creation date latest:		1789
current location:		204 Colonial American
creditline:			General Income Fund
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culture:	America
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 272 x 181 x 11 cm (107 1/16 x 71 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 245 x 154 cm (96 7/16 x 60 5/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
	opening date:   1936-06-26T04:00:00
	<i>The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

	title:		35th Anniversary Exhibition
	opening date:   1951-06-20T04:00:00
	<i>35th Anniversary Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

	title:		Style, Truth and the Portrait
	opening date:   1963-10-01T04:00:00
	<i>Style, Truth and the Portrait</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).

	title:		Gilbert Stuart
	opening date:   2004-10-18T00:00:00
	<i>Gilbert Stuart</i>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 18, 2004-January 16, 2005); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (March 27-July 31, 2005).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilbert Stuart (21 October 2004-16 January 2005); traveled to Washington, DC, for the National Portrait Gallery at the National Gallery of Art (27 March-31 July 2005) illus. cat. no. 19, p. 81; text pp. 75-83.', 'opening_date': '2005-03-27T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Baron John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare [1748-1802],  County Limerick, by descent to his sons
	date: 1789-probably 1802
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	John Fitzgibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare [1792-1851] and Richard Hobart Fitzgibbon, 3rd Earl of Clare [1793-1864], sons of Baron FitzGibbon1
	date: Probably 1802-1864
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			* <div><!--block-->1The Fitzgibbon sons likely received this painting upon the death of their father in 1802.</div>
			
			
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	Alexander James Beresford-Hope [1820-1887], Bedgebury, Kent, by descent to his son, Alexander James Beresford-Hope1
	date: 1864-1887
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			* <div><!--block-->1The painting passed to Beresford-Hope, a descendant of the first earl's sister, upon the death of the third earl, Richard Hobart Fitzgibbon, in 1864.</div>
			
			
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	Alexander James Beresford-Hope, Bedgebury, Kent1
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			* <div><!--block-->1Beresford-Hope received the painting upon the death of his father in 1887.</div>
			
			
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	Isaac Lewis, Esq. [1849-1927], Bedgebury, Kent
	date: -1919
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	(Bedgebury Mansion sale, Knight Frank & Rutley, London, May 12-19, 1919, no. 23, sold to Knoedler & Co.)1
	date: 1919
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	(Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1919
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
	date: 1919-
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CITATIONS

	Knight Frank &amp; Rutley. <em>Catalogue of the Contents of the Mansion of Bedgebury</em>. London: Knight Frank &amp; Rutley, 1919.
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	L. P. "Gilbert Stuart's Portrait of Lord Fitzgibbon." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 7, no. 1 (1920): 3-5.
	page number: 	Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: pp. 3-5
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25136337

	Park, Lawrence, John Hill Morgan, and Royal Cortissoz. <em>Gilbert Stuart; An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works</em>. New York: W.E. Rudge, 1926.
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	Kirsh, Andrea, and Rustin S. Levenson.<em> Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies.</em> New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 30-31
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	Adams, Henry. <em>What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 46 - 47
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IMAGES

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