Live Auction 2419Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Lot 107 SOLD BY THE ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)

Study for "Portrait of Robert C. Ogden"

Closed3 March 2011

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Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Study for "Portrait of Robert C. Ogden"
bears inscription 'Painted/by Tho*** Eakins 1904' (lower left)
oil on canvas
19¾ x 15½ in. (50.2 x 39.3 cm.)

Frank Wilbert Stokes, New York.
Gunvor Bull-Teilman, New York, acquired from the above, 1955.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, acquired from the above, 1962.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1966.

Specialist note

The present work is a study for Robert C. Ogden (oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in., private collection), which sold at Christie's, New York on May 20, 2009, lot 128.

Eakins painted this portrait of Robert C. Ogden in 1904, a year in which he produced several other superb portraits including those of William R. Hallowell, Mrs. Edith Mahon and Samuel Myers. Ogden was a merchant, philanthropist, and educational worker who was also involved with the Union Theological Seminary. Reflecting on his life, friends noted they found in him "sagacity and moral strength." ("Honor the Memory of Robert C. Ogden," New York Times, 27 October 1913, n.p.)