Thomas Sprigg (1715–1781)

Artist John Hesselius American, 1728–1778

Date1764

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions49 3/8 x 37 7/8 in. (125.4 x 96.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Cheney

Object numberGL.63.33.1

On View

Not on view

Provenance**Presumably commissioned by sitter, Thomas Sprigg (1715–1781), Cedar Park, Anne Arundel County, MD; created United States, 1764; Thomas Sprigg; to wife, Elizabeth Galloway Sprigg (1721–1789), 1782 (?); to son, Richard Sprigg (1739–1798), Strawberry Hill, Anne Arundel County, MD, 1789 (?); by descent to great-great-granddaughter; [Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York, by 1948]; Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Cheney, Charlotte, NC; given to NCMA, 1963.Published ReferencesPanorama (Newman Gallery) 4 (October 1948), 17, illus. (b-w) 16 (mistakenly identified as Richard Sprigg, price $1,500 )

Newman Gallery advertisement, Art Digest 23 (Oct.1948), illus. (b-w) p. 6 (mistakenly identified as Richard Sprigg).

American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 27, illus. (b-w).

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), listed 4, illus. (b-w) 50.

American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (brochure) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1975), no. 19.

Richard Beale Davis, Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763, 3 vols. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978), illus. (b-w) Vol. 1, opp. 1237.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 220.

Robert J.H. Janson-Lapalme, "Generous Marylanders: Paying for Peale's Study in England," in New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale, Lillian B. Miller and David C. Ward, eds. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c. 1991), 11-27, noted 22 n.19.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, "American 18th & 19th Century Portraits," October 1948.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Loan of the Month," October 1963.

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 7-October 19, 1975, no. 19.
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