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Exhibition History"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," organized by the Waterloo Municipal Galleries, sponsored by the National Bank of Waterloo, Oct. 24 - Nov. 20, 1983; (Circulated to: Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Jan. 15 - Feb. 26, 1984; Muscatine Art Center, April 1 - may 13, 1984; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, May 27 - July 1, 1984; Sioux City Art Center, July 15 - Aug. 26, 1984)

"19th Century American Portraits from Iowa Collections," Des Moines Art Center, Sept. 14 - Oct. 17, 1976

"The Way You Look," Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Jan. 15 - Feb. 18, 1970

"American Sampler Exhibition: Paintings from Around the United States," Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 4 - June 9, 1963

"Art of the United Nations," M. H. DeYoung Memorial, San Francisco, 1946

Extended loan, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, 1942 - 1944
Published ReferencesDMAC Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1975, ill.

Gustavus A. Eisen, PORTRAITS OF WASHINGTON, N.Y., 1932, ref. p.162, ill. pl.LXV, p.269

"American Sampler Exhibition: Paintings from Around the United States," Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, 1963, exh. cat. ill.

E. C. Zwart, "The Front Row," DES MOINES TRIBUNE, Feb. 16, 1970, ill.

PORTRAIT ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, Charles Knight publisher, London, 1840

DMAC Bulletin, Feb. 1960, cover ill.

"The Way You Look," Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, 1970, exh. cat. no.39, ill. p.4

Des Moines Art Center Membership Print, 1976, color ill.

DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER, Picture Magazine, Feb. 21, 1960, color cover ill.

DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.205 & 206, b/w ill. pl.136, p.206

"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," Waterloo Municipal Galleries, 1983, exh. cat. no.36, color ill.

"19th Century American Portraits from Iowa Collections," Des Moines Art Center, 1976, exh. cat. no.21

AN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. p.33
DimensionsOverall: 29 × 23 1/2 in. (73.7 × 59.7 cm)
Accession Number 1960.1
Classificationspainting
CopyrightPublic Domain
ProvenanceArtist; J. Barclay, Philadelphia [purchased from the previous, ca. 1805]; T.B. Barclay, Liverpool [gift from the previous, probably ca. 1805]; William Rathbone VI (1819-1902), Liverpool [bequeathed from the previous by 1895, possibly by 1881]; Hugh Rathbone, Esq. (1860-1940), Liverpool [inherited from the previous by 1932, probably 1918]. E.D. Levinson, New York [owned by 1942, until at least 1946]; (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York); George Olmsted Foundation, Washington, D.C. [purchased from the previous, 1959]; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 1960]
Portrait of George Washington
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines