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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Noah Smith
    Ralph Earl. Noah Smith, 1798. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000165

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    Noah Smith

    by Ralph Earl

    Inscriptions

    Signed, lower left: "R. Earl / Pinxt / 1798"

    Provenance

    Noah Smith, Bennington, Vermont, 1798; by descent to Eliza Smith, Huntington, Vergennes, Vermont, 1812. Ann Eliza Huntington, Vergennes, Vermont, by 1912; John Harrington, Vergennes, Vermont, from 1912; bequeathed to Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, from 1913; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

    Exhibition history

    Allentown Art Museum, Penn., The World of Benjamin West, May 1–July 31, 1962, cat. 71.

    Publications

    Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (New York, Holt, 1885). Daniel Catton Rich, “The Portraits of Ralph Earl,” International Studio 96, 4 (Aug. 1930), 36–39. New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project, American Portrait Inventory, 1440 Early American Portrait Artists (Historical Records Survey, 1940), 86. John Spargo, The Rise and Progress of Freemasonry in Vermont (Burlington, Vermont, privately printed, 1944). From Colony to Nation (Art Institute of Chicago, 1949). Samuel M. Green, “Uncovering the Connecticut School,” Art News 51, 10 (Jan. 1953), 38. Lloyd Goodrich, “Ralph Earl’s Debt to Gainsborough and Other English Portraitists,” Antiques 78 (Nov. 1960), 464–65. Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 156. Laurence B. Goodrich, Ralph Earl, Recorder for an Era (State University of New York, 1967). David A. Hanks, “American Paintings at The Art Institute of Chicago, Part 1: The Eighteenth Century,” Antiques 104 (Sept. 1973), 415. Margaretta M. Lovell, “Reading Eighteenth–Century American Family Portraits: Social Images and Self–Images,” Winterthur Portfolio 22, 4 (Winter 1987), 244–64. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic, exh. cat., (Yale University Press, 1991), cat. 59. John Caldwell and Oswaldo Roldriguez Roque, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), 147 (ill.). Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 108–10, no. 108.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Ralph Earl / American, 1751–1801
    Date
    1798
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    163.2 × 107.3 cm (64 1/4 × 42 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Place
    Bennington
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Goodman Fund
    Accession no.
    1956.126

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