id:			127665
accession number:	1950.346
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.346
updated:		2023-12-02 19:03:26.391000

Benjamin Rouse, 1819. John Wesley Jarvis (American, 1781–1840). Oil on canvas; unframed: 55.5 x 43.9 cm (21 7/8 x 17 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Adella Prentiss Hughes 1950.346

title:				Benjamin Rouse
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creation date:			1819
creation date earliest:		1819
creation date latest:		1819
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creditline:			Bequest of Adella Prentiss Hughes
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culture:	America, 19th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* John Wesley Jarvis (American, 1781–1840)  - artist

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measurements: Unframed: 55.5 x 43.9 cm (21 7/8 x 17 5/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Inscribed on back: "My portrait was painted Nov 1819 when I was 24 years old."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Portraits of Men and Women Who Have Had an Important Part in the Making of Cleveland, (6 July-24 August 1919), no catalogue; see "Summer Exhibits" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (September-October 1919).<br>Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October 1936), cat. no. 35.

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PROVENANCE

	Virginia Krumholz, daughter of the sitter; Adella Prentiss Hughes, granddaughter of the sitter.
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