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George Esten Cooke (1793-1849), Self Portrait of the Artist at Work on a Portrait of Henry Clay, (painting). Artist:  Cooke, George, 1793-1849, painter. Title:  George Esten Cooke (1793-1849), Self Portrait of the Artist at Work on a Portrait of Henry Clay, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1839-1840. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Subject:  Portrait male -- Cooke, George -- Self Portrait Portrait male -- Cooke, George -- Waist length Occupation -- Art -- Painter Object -- Art Object -- Painting Object -- Art Tool -- Palette Object -- Art Tool -- Artist's Brush Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Anonymous Collection. Remarks:  The portrait of Henry Clay (depiced in this portrait) was destroyed by fire in 1954. George Esten Cooke (1793-1849) was by 1839, in Washington, engaged in painting a "full life-size portrait of Henry Clay." He completed three portraits of Clay full-length, as well as a bust portrait. The latter may have been from a sitting, though there is no record of such a sitting. Of the three heroic portraits, one is at the courthouse at Ashland, Virginia, and another remains at the University of Alabama. The third was at the Chicago Historical Society until destroyed by fire in 1954. [Amy, Clifford (1990) "Henry Clay and the American State Portrait," The Kentucky Review: Vol. 10: No. 3, Article 4]. Artist Cooke later removed his family to Prattville, Alabama, to be near art patron Daniel Pratt. Cooke was born in Maryland and died while in New Orleans, Louisiana. References:  Nelson, Nelson, 2020. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 9D640517   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 9D640517 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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