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Captain Alexander Graydon, (painting). Artist:  Feke, Robert, ca. 1707-ca. 1751, painter. Title:  Captain Alexander Graydon, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1746. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  40 x 32 in. (101.2 x 81 cm) Description:  Waist-length standing portrait of Alexander Graydon (d. 1761) wearing a black waist-coat and gray coat with red lining. He holds a hat under his left arm. His right hand is tucked in his waistband; his left hand is posed with his palm open. At left is a landscape in the distance. Subject:  Portrait male -- Graydon, Alexander -- Waist length Occupation -- Religion Occupation -- Vendor Object Type:  Painting Owner:  National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20565 Accession Number: 1966.13.2 (2318) Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Graydon, Alexander, Bristol, Pennsylvania Graydon, Alexander, Mrs. (Rachel Marks), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Graydon, Alexander, Jr., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Graydon, William, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Graydon, Henry Murray, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Graydon, Julia, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania until 1954. Sittig, Edgar H., Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pennsylvania Gift of Garbisch, Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler, 1966. References:  Miles, Ellen G., "American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century," Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1995. National Gallery of Art, 1988, 1990. "American paintings and sculpture: an illustrated catalogue," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1970. Illustration:  Miles, Ellen G., "American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century," Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1995, pg. 103. "American paintings and sculpture: an illustrated catalogue," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1970, pg. 59. 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 08600455   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 08600455 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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